STATEMENT OF ARISTOTLE'S POSITION.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
Let us first examine the doctrine that classifies essence into ten (kinds). We shall have to investigate whether it be necessary to acknowledge that its partisans recognize ten kinds, all of which bear the name of essence, or ten categories; for they say237 that essence is not synonymous in everything, and they are right.