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Wikipedia, "Plotinus"
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A community-maintained tertiary reference on Plotinus, directly examined. Its strength is a precisely reported death age and year and a named compiler for his surviving writings; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than a Neoplatonism studies monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three.
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Reliability Tier3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class. NotesWikipedia's article on Plotinus, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for his death at sixty-six in 270 CE as reported by his student and biographer Porphyry, placing his birth around 204 or 205 CE; his move to Rome at forty during the reign of Philip the Arab; his essays compiled into the Enneads by Porphyry from what Porphyry called an enormous collection of notes and essays; and his standing among modern scholars as the founder of Neoplatonism.
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PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus
Source Typereference
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This source names Neoplatonism directly: "community article rather than a Neoplatonism studies monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three."
This source names Plotinus directly: "tertiary reference on Plotinus, directly examined."
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This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Prayers, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 general references.
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