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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SECOND ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 4

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4. Now, in general anything that has a potentiality is actually something else, and this potentiality of the future mode of being is an existing mode. But what we think of as Matter, what we assert to be the potentiality of all things, cannot be said to be actually any one being among beings: if it were of itself any definite being, it could not be potentially all.

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