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WHAT AND HOW IS EVERY INTELLIGIBLE ENTITY.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
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8. Since then the (universal) Organism possesses primary existence, since it is simultaneously organism, intelligence, and veritable "Being"; and as we state that it contains all organisms, numbers, justice, beauty, and the other similar beings—for we mean something different by the Man himself, and Number itself, and Justice itself—we have to determine, so far as it is possible in such things, what is the condition and nature of each intelligible entity.

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

INTELLIGENCE THINKS THINGS NOT BECAUSE THEY EXIST, BUT BECAUSE IT POSSESSES THEM. NUMBER MUST EXIST IN THE PRIMARY ESSENCE.