Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Kirk , Raven , Schofield (1984-02-24), The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selection of Texts, Cambridge University Press, Retrieved on 2011-09-06
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06 SEP 2011
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. 1 
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notesAnaxagoras correctly notes that things come into being as compounds of existing things and dissolve back into compounds.
