Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 In Chronological Order,...

16. When we separately consider each of the things which compose sense-being and when we wish to designate the quality which exists among them, we must not call it "whatness," any more than quantity or movement, but rather name it a characteristic, employing the expressions "such," "as," and "this kind." We are thus enabled to indicate beauty and ugliness, such as they are in the body. Indeed, sense-beauty is no more than a figure of speech,343 in respect to intelligible beauty; it is likewise with quality, since black and white are also completely different (from their "reason," or their idea).