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Wikipedia, "Plotinus"

Wikipedia, accessed 2026

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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
Bare Wikipedia community article, tier 3, matching this corpus's settled precedent for this source class.
Notes
Wikipedia'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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Wikipedia contributors
Publisher
Wikipedia
Publication Year
2026
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotinus
Source Type
reference
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Neoplatonism, Religions

This source names Neoplatonism directly: "community article rather than a Neoplatonism studies monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three."

Source Wikipedia, "Plotinus"Wikipedia contributors
Plotinus, Historical Figures

This source names Plotinus directly: "tertiary reference on Plotinus, directly examined."

Source Wikipedia, "Plotinus"Wikipedia contributors
Claims Backed By This Source (23 claims)

This source backs 23 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
  • Prayers, 7 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 holds, 3 general references.
  • Historical Figures, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 2 general references.
  • Doctrines, 2 claims: 2 holds.
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