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

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3. We assert, then, a plurality of Existents, but a plurality not fortuitous and therefore a plurality deriving from a unity. But even admitting this derivation from a unity- a unity however not predicated of them in respect of their essential being- there is, surely, no reason why each of these Existents, distinct in character from every other, should not in itself stand as a separate genus.

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

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