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The better and more divine nature consists of three parts: the conceptual, the material, and that which is formed from these, which the Greeks call the world. PlatoPlato, Timaeus, 50 c-d. is wont to give to the conceptual the name of idea, example, or father, and to the material the name of mother or nurse, or seat and place of generation, and to that which results from both the name of offspring or generation.