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Ennead VI Books 1 to 5 by Plotinus

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The Different Types of Habituation

The mere name of habituation in different things does not always correspond to the existence of any genuine similarity. Should we then divide the habituations into two classes? Recognizing that certain objects have an inert and inactive habituation, implying simultaneity of existence. And that other objects have a habituation, always implying potentiality and actualization. Must we assert that in general certain things actualize while others limit themselves to existing? must we also assert that that which limits itself to existence only gives its correlative a name, while that which actualizes gives it existence? Of this latter kind of things are the father and son, the active and passive, for such things exert a kind of life and

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