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line of development was taken by the second-century Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus , who, by a process of repeated abstraction, reduced Aristotle's list of ten categories to five: Substance, Relation, Quantity, Motion and Quality. Plotinus further suggested that the latter three categories of his list--namely, Quantity, Motion, and Quality--correspond to three different kinds of relation and that these three categories could therefore be subsumed under the category of Relation.

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