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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 3

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3. But perhaps we should rather speak of some single category, embracing Intellectual Substance, Matter, Form, and the Composite of Matter and Form. One might refer to the family of the Heraclids as a unity in the sense, not of a common element in all its members, but of a common origin: similarly, Intellectual Substance would be Substance in the first degree, the others being substances by derivation and in a lower degree.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 3

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