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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 11

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11. Passing to Quantity and the quantum, we have to consider the view which identifies them with number and magnitude on the ground that everything quantitative is numbered among Sensible things or rated by the extension of its substrate: we are here, of course, discussing not Quantity in isolation, but that which causes a piece of wood to be three yards long and gives the five in "five horses," Now we have often maintained that number and magnitude are to be regarded as the only true…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 11

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