Encyclopedia > Aperion

Article Content

Aperion

Seemingly also referred to as Apeiron.

Anaximander, one of the presocratic Greek philosophers, proposed the existence of an aperion, being an unlimited reserve of matter from which all things in the universe originate. Thales, a contemporary, claimed that water, one of the four elements (water, fire, earth, air), was the arché of all matter.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Reformed churches

... survive without division since the Reformation to the present time. The Hungarian Reformed Church has adopted the Heidelberg Catechism[?] and the Second Helvetic ...