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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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12. This is Plato's conception: to him participation does not, in the case of Matter, comport any such presence of an Ideal-form in a Substance to be shaped by it as would produce one compound thing made up of the two elements changing at the same moment, merging into one another, modified each by the other. In his haste to his purpose he raises many difficult questions, but he is determined to disown that view; he labours to indicate in what mode Matter can receive the Ideal-forms without…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SIXTH TRACTATE: Section 12

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