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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTAT...

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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FOURTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 1 Similar meaning (71%) The Enneads of Plotinus: THE FIFTH ENNEAD: FIFTH TRACTATE: Section 7 Similar meaning (67%) The Enneads of Plotinus: THE THIRD ENNEAD: EIGHTH TRACTATE: Section 7 Similar meaning (63%) Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. III: Doctrinal Treat... Similar meaning (62%)
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2. If sight depends upon the linking of the light of vision with the light leading progressively to the illumined object, then, by the very hypothesis, one intervening substance, the light, is indispensable: but if the illuminated body, which is the object of vision, serves as an agent operating certain changes, some such change might very well impinge immediately upon the eye, requiring no medium; this all the more, since as things are the intervening substance, which actually does exist, is…

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