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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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10. Time, again, has been described as some sort of a sequence upon Movement, but we learn nothing from this, nothing is said, until we know what it is that produces this sequential thing: probably the cause and not the result would turn out to be Time. And, admitting such a thing, there would still remain the question whether it came into being before the movement, with it, or after it; and, whether we say before or with or after, we are speaking of order in Time: and thus our definition is…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: SEVENTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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