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

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16. But here we may be questioned about these numbers which we describe as the primal and authentic: "Where do you place these numbers, in what genus among Beings? To everyone they seem to come under Quantity and you have certainly brought Quantity in, where you say that discrete Quantity equally with the continuous holds place among Beings; but you go on to say that there are the numbers belonging to the Firsts and then talk of other numbers quite distinct, those of reckoning; tell us how you…

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

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