Plotinus
Ennead II.4 [12]: On matter (or on the two matters)
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Ennead II.4 [12]: On matter (or on the two matters)
Plotinus
It distinguishes sensible matter, the indeterminate substrate of bodies, from intelligible matter, the indeterminacy proper to Intellect before it receives form. Sensible matter is incorporeal, without quality or magnitude, and is known only by a "bastard reasoning", as the Timaeus said.