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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 15

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15. The "category of Action": The quantum has been regarded as a single genus on the ground that Quantity and Number are attributes of Substance and posterior to it; the quale has been regarded as another genus because Quality is an attribute of Substance: on the same principle it is maintained that since activity is an attribute of Substance, Action constitutes yet another genus. Does then the action constitute the genus, or the activity from which the action springs, in the same way as…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FIRST TRACTATE: Section 15

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