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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 20

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20. We may thus distinguish two phases of Intellect, in one of which it may be taken as having no contact whatever with particulars and no Act upon anything; thus it is kept apart from being a particular intellect. In the same way science is prior to any of its constituent species, and the specific science is prior to any of its component parts: being none of its particulars, it is the potentiality of all; each particular, on the other hand, is actually itself, but potentially the sum of all…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: SECOND TRACTATE: Section 20

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