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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 16

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16. When each of the entities bound up with the pseudo-substance is taken apart from the rest, the name of Quality is given to that one among them, by which without pointing to essence or quantity or motion we signify the distinctive mark, the type or aspect of a thing- for example, the beauty or ugliness of a body. This beauty- need we say?- is identical in name only with Intellectual Beauty: it follows that the term "Quality" as applied to the Sensible and the Intellectual is necessarily…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 16

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