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258 Non-propositional Thought in Plotinus A.C. LLOYD It is well known to those interested in Neoplatonism that Plotinus speaks regularly of two `intellects'. There is a psychic intellect whose activity he often calls 61tivoia and later philosophers discursive thought; and there is a 'pure' intellect which has not descended into the soul and whose activity later philosophers often call intuitive or non-discursive thought. For the first to be replaced by, or to become the second, which is of course a higher level for the soul, is a necessary step towards contact with the One. Discursive thought means thought that involves transition, an expression often applied to thought by Plotinus. But this can be a temporal transition from one element of a thought to another or a logical transition from a premiss to a conclusion. Singular judgments belong to discursive thought.' I No one doubts that temporal transition and inference are both excluded from the activity of pure intellect. But Plotinus regularly describes the object, or better, content, of this activity as 'everything together' (6yob ;r6tVTa). And in a paper of 1970 I suggested that, extrapolating from Aristotle's notion of a judgment, he supposed that there is a form
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Published: Jan 1, 1986
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