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A study of the different kinds of reversion classified into a triad or trinity of productive, revertive, and perfective motions. Ficino departs considerably from the Plotinian emphasis on dialectic in the commentary on Ennead I. 3 and moves towards a more extensive systematization based on the triadic dialectics and ontology of Proclus and Dionysius the Areopagite.