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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 2

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2. In asserting that Being is not a unity, we do not mean to imply a definite number of existences; the number may well be infinite: we mean simply that it is many as well as one, that it is, so to speak, a diversified unity, a plurality in unity. It follows that either the unity so regarded is a unity of genus under which the Existents, involving as they do plurality as well as unity, stand as species; or that while there are more genera than one, yet all are subordinate to a unity; or there…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 2

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