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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 8

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8. We cannot indeed escape positing these three, Being, Motion, Stability, once it is the fact that the Intellect discerns them as separates; and if it thinks of them at all, it posits them by that very thinking; if they are thought, they exist. Things whose existence is bound up with Matter have no being in the Intellect: these three principles are however free of Matter; and in that which goes free of Matter to be thought is to be.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 8

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