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

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13. It cannot reasonably be thought that the notion of unity is derived from the object since this is physical- man, animal, even stone, a presentation of that order is something very different from unity [which must be a thing of the Intellectual]; if that presentation were unity, the mind could never affirm unity unless of that given thing, man, for example. Then again, just as in the case of "On the right" or other such affirmation of relation, the mind does not affirm in some caprice but…

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

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