An Insightful Ancient Observation on the Origins of Things
The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.
G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, M. Schofield, The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts (1984-02-24)
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Anaxagoras correctly notes that things come into being as compounds of existing things and dissolve back into compounds.
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Insightful Ancient Observation, things, compounds, Anaxagoras, dissolution, Greeks, composition, Origins, perishes