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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. Then the question rises whether Matter- potentially what it becomes by receiving shape- is actually something else or whether it has no actuality at all. In general terms: When a potentiality has taken a definite form, does it retain its being?