QUANTITY AS EQUAL AND UNEQUAL DOES NOT REFER TO THE OBJECTS.
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Plotinus and Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
As to (Aristotle's) assertion that the property of quantity is to be both equal and unequal,257 this property belongs to quantity itself, and not to the objects which participate in quantity, unless it be by accident, so far as one does not consider these objects in themselves. A three foot object, for instance, is a quantity so far as it is taken in its totality; but it does not form a kind with quantity itself; only, along with it, it is traced back to a kind of unity, a common category.