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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 13

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13. It has been remarked that the continuous is effectually distinguished from the discrete by their possessing the one a common, the other a separate, limit. The same principle gives rise to the numerical distinction between odd and even; and it holds good that if there are differentiae found in both contraries, they are either to be abandoned to the objects numbered, or else to be considered as differentiae of the abstract numbers, and not of the numbers manifested in the sensible objects.

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 13

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