Todd Ohara

Radical Apophasis


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of dependence conditions will, more importantly, enable us to understand why Plotinus believes that the One cannot be spoken, named, or known. Any given sensible, concrete particular—such as a particular human being—is understood, for example, in terms of (1) its relationship of participating in some paradigmatic Form that defines its quiddity and qualia, and (2) its being a compound of constituents—for example, (a) soul and body, or (b) hyle and morphe.35

      In the first case (1), the participation relation [P] is understood in terms of both dependence and likeness: For A to be like F = (i) for A to resemble F and (ii) for A to depend on F for that resemblance. Plotinus explains, however, that there are two kinds of resemblance/likeness: