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The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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10. We may be told that an image need not be thus closely attached to its archetype, that we know images holding in the absence of their archetype and that a warmed object may retain its heat when the fire is withdrawn. To begin with the image and archetype: If we are reminded of an artist's picture we observe that here the image was produced by the artist, not by his subject; even in the case of a self-portrait, the picture is no "image of archetype," since it is not produced by the painter's…

The Enneads of Plotinus: THE SIXTH ENNEAD: FOURTH TRACTATE: Section 10

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