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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 18

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18. These problems at any rate all serve to show that, while in general it is necessary to look for differences by which to separate things from each other, to hunt for differences of the differences themselves is both futile and irrational. We cannot have substances of substances, quantities of quantities, qualities of qualities, differences of differences; differences must, where possible, be found outside the genus, in creative powers and the like: but where no such criteria are present, as…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: THIRD TRACTATE: Section 18

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