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	Anaximander [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Anaximander added two distinctive features to the concept of divinity: his Boundless is an impersonal something (or 'nature', the Greek word is 'phusis'), and it is not only immortal but also unborn.
		Anaximander boldly asserts that the earth floats free in the center of the universe, unsupported by water, pillars, or whatever.
		Anaximander's intention, however, can be better understood not as an image, but as a comparison of the light of the celestial bodies with that of lightning.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/a/anaximan.htm (5447 words)

	Anaximander
		Anaximander was a younger contemporary of Thales, who also sought for the first material principle; he was a disciple and successor of Thales and philosophized in dialogue with him.
		Anaximander was not mentioned until the time Aristotle, who classifies him as belonging the "physical" school of thought of Thales.
		For Anaximander, the archê;, or first principle, is not any of the elements—earth, water, air or fire—but that which is before all the elements (and everything else), from which the elements emerge and which they all ultimately are (see also Aristotle, Physics 187a 12).
	www.abu.nb.ca /Courses/GrPhil/Anaximander.htm (1541 words)

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