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NOT ALL EARTHLY ENTITIES HAVE CORRESPONDING IDEAS.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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In conclusion, the accidental composites in which Intelligence does not share and which are formed by a fortuitous complex of sense-objects, have no ideas corresponding to them in the intelligible world. Things that proceed from decay are produced only because the Soul is unable to produce anything better in this case; otherwise she would have rather produced some object more agreeing with nature; she therefore produces what she can.

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42930

THE SOUL RECEIVES ACCIDENTS FROM MATTER, BUT DEFECTS ARE NOT IN THE INTELLIGIBLE. EVEN THE ARTS ARE DEPENDENT ON THE SOUL.