[291] Logically, their conception of matter breaks down. [292] Cicero, Academics, i. 11. [293] See ii. 4.10. [294] See Enn. ii. 4, 5; iii. 6. Another proof of the chronological order. [295] Plotinos was here in error; Aristotle ignored them, because he did not admit existence. [296] This refers to the Hylicists, who considered the universe as founded on earth, water, air or fire; or, Anaxagoras, who introduced the category of mind. [297] Plotinos's own categories are developed from the thought of Plato, found in his "Sophists," for the intelligible being; and yet he harks back to Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics, for his classification of the sense-world. [298] See vi. 4, 6, 9. [299] In his "Sophist." p. 248 e-250; Cary, 72-76. [300] In vi. 3. [301] See vi. 3.6. [302] See vi. 3.3. [303] See iii. 2.16. [304] That is, the higher part, the principal power of the soul; see ii. 3.17, 18. [305] Here "being" and "essence" have had to be inverted. [306] Verbal similarity, homonymy, or pun. [307] See Plato's Sophists, p. 250 c; Cary, 75. [308] Sophists, p. 254 d; Cary, 86. [309] As said Aristotle, Met. iv. 2. [310] Plato, Sophist, p. 245; Cary, 63. [311] See vi. 9.1. [312] See vi. 4. [313] Arist., Met. xiv. 6. [314] Aristotle. Met. xiv. 6. [315] See ii. 6.2. [316] See vi. 7.3-6. [317] As said Aristotle. Eth. Nic. i. 6.2. [318] Against Aristotle. [319] See vi. 1.14. [320] See iii. 7.11. [321] To ti ên einai. [322] See i. 6. [323] See v. 8. [324] Counting identity and difference as a composite one? See note 11. [325] See iv. 9.5. [326] See iv. 8.3. [327] See iii. 2.16. [328] See iv. 8.8. [329] See iii. 8.7. [330] See iii. 8.2. [331] See iii. 2.2. [332] See iii. 9.1. [333] See 3.9.1; Timaeus, p. 39; Cary, 14. [334] See ii. 9.1. [335] See v. 3.4. [336] Plato, Philebus, p. 18; Cary, 23. [337] Plato, Philebus, p. 17 e; Cary, 21. [338] See iii. 4.1. [339] See iv. 8.3-7. [340] See iv. 8.8. [341] See iv. 4.29. [342] Here Plotinos purposely mentions Numenius's name for the divinity (fr. 20.6), and disagrees with it, erecting above it a supreme Unity. This, however, was only Platonic, Rep. vi. 19, 509 b., so that Plotinos should not be credited with it as is done by the various histories of philosophy. Even Numenius held the unity, fr. 14. [343] This means, by mere verbal similarity, "homonymy," or, punning. [344] As said Plato, in his Philebus, p. 18, Cary, 23. [345] See i. 1.7. [346] See Bouillet, vol. 1, p. 380. [347] See iii. 6.1-5. [348] See sect. 16. [349] See ii. 1.2. [350] Or, mortal nature, or, decay; see i. 8.4; ii. 4.5-6. [351] See vi. 2.7, 8. [352] See ii. 4.6. [353] See vi. 1.13, 14. [354] In vi. 3.11, and vi. 1.13, 14, he however subsumes time and place under relation. [355] According to Aristotle, Met. vii. 3. [356] Aristotle, Met. viii. 5.6. [357] Aristotle, Categ. ii. 5. [358] See ii. 5.4. [359] Met. vii. 11. [360] Met. vii. 17. [361] See ii. 4.3-5. [362] See iii. 6.