Apeiron
Apeiron (ἄπειρον) is a Greek word meaning "(that which is)
unlimited," "boundless", "infinite", or
"indefinite" from ἀ- a-, "without" and πεῖραρ peirar, "end, limit", "boundary", the Ionic
Greek form of πέρας peras,
"end, limit, boundary"
The apeiron is central to the cosmological theory
created by Anaximander, a 6th-century BC pre-Socratic Greek
philosopher whose work is mostly lost. From the few existing fragments, we
learn that he believed the beginning or ultimate reality (arche) is eternal and
infinite, or boundless (apeiron), subject to neither old age nor decay, which
perpetually yields fresh materials from which everything we can perceive is
derived. Apeiron generated the opposites, hot-cold, wet-dry etc.,
which acted on the creation of the world. Everything is generated from
apeiron and then it is destroyed by going back to apeiron, according to
necessity. He believed that infinite worlds are generated from apeiron and
then they are destroyed there again.
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