Anaximander Used To Assert That The Primary Cause Of All Things Was The Infinite,--not Defining Exactly Whether He Meant Air Or Water Or Anything Else.

Anaximander Used To Assert That The Primary Cause Of All Things Was The Infinite,--not Defining Exactly Whether He Meant Air Or Water Or Anything Else.

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Anaximander used to assert that the primary cause of all things was
the Infinite,--not defining exactly whether he meant air or water
or anything else.
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD)
-- Anaximander, ii

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