[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.