How did Anaxagoras explain the origin of things?
The origin of things, as I see it, lies in an initial state where 'all things were together.' This was an infinite mixture of infinitely small seeds, each containing within it a portion of every other thing. No one thing was entirely separate from another. It was the Mind, Nous, that began to stir this mixture, initiating the process of separation. Through this ordering force, things began to differentiate, and the world we experience emerged from this primordial composite.
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