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PHYSICAL CATEGORIES ARE MATTER, FORM, COMBINATION, ATTRIBUTES AND ACCIDENTS.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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3. What classification shall we adopt? There is first matter, then form, and further the combination which results from their blending. Then we have a number of conceptions which refer to the three preceding classes, and are predicated of them; the first, simply, as attributes; the others, besides, as accidents. Among the latter, some are contained within the things, while others contain them; some of them are actions, and the others experiences (passions) or their consequences.

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Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods, Project Gutenberg eBook #42932

CAN WE ANALYZE THIS WORLD BY ANALOGY WITH THE INTELLIGIBLE? THE THREE FIRST PHYSICAL CATEGORIES OF MATTER, FORM AND COMBINATION.