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What he should have said is that Extension without length or depth, is a priori. Create a 'space' in your mind's eye: every location of that object has the same spatial location, our mind's are a singularity with extension, for it covers no spatial breadth. Or similarly, how all the vastness that you behold with your eyes are compressed to a point (the pupil).

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>Plotinus also attracted women who were devoted to philosophy. There was Gemina, in whose house he lived, and her daughter, who like her mother was called Gemina; and there was Amphicleia, who was the 5wife of Ariston, son of Iamblichus, also devoted to philosophy. Furthermore, a number of men and women of the highest social order brought their male and female offspring to him when they were about to die. They would entrust them to him along with what remained of their property, treating his protection as sacred and god-like. For this reason, Plotinus’ house was full of boys and girls – among them Potamo, whose education he took such pains over that he would often listen even to revisions of his compositions. He would minutely scrutinize the accounts submitted by their trustees, and insisted that as long as they did not take up philosophy their possessions and revenues should 15 remain untouched and secure. Plotinus, then, although he never relaxed his mental concentration so long as he was awake, undertook his share of responsibility for the lives and concerns of other people – many of them. He was, to those who had any dealings with him, kind and accessible. For this reason, although he lived for 26 whole years in Rome, and acted as arbiter in many cases of personal dispute, he never made a single enemy in his public life.
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>§10. Among those with pretensions to philosophy it was different: Olympius of Alexandria, who had studied with Ammonius for a while, 5 wanted to be pre-eminent as a philosopher and hated him. He used magic to attack him, trying to get him star-struck. When he realized that the attempt had only rebounded on himself, he said to his acquaintances that the power of Plotinus’ soul was so great that he could deflect attacks made against him onto those who were trying to do him harm. Plotinus for his part was aware of Olympius’ efforts, and said that his body then felt like ‘a purse being drawn shut’ [Symp. 190d], his limbs being pressed together. Olympius saw that he would suffer much worse things himself than anything he could hope to do to Plotinus, and gave up trying.