PHL200Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anaximander, Metatheory, Xenophanes
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Basic stuff was water this could mean that everything comes from or really is water in one form or another. Soul produces motion and that magnetic lodestone has soul because it causes iron to move. First person to construct map of the world and to have predicted an earthquake. Originating stuff of the cosmos something indefinite or boundless (apeiron in greek: infinite ) this indefinite stuff is moving, directive of other things, and eternal; thus it qualifies as divine. Changes in the world are ordered lawlike forces guaranteeing the orderly processes of change between opposites. If the emergence of the world consists in the division of matter, then the decline of it consists in dissolution of these elements. Gave explanations of all sorts of meteorological and other natural phenomena. There is a single originative stuff aer (dense air) that is indefinite enough to give rise to things in the cosmos.
