Anaximander's concept of the apeiron — the indefinite, boundless, or unlimited — as the primary source from which all definite things emerge and into which they return.
Moves beyond Thales's specific element (water) to posit an indeterminate source, representing the first abstract metaphysical principle in Western philosophy.
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