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Anaximander thought that water was not the ultimate reality because:
{ 1 } - air was more of a life source than water.
{ 2 } - fire was more energetic than water.
{ 3 } - all of the elements were the ultimate reality.
{ 4 } - earth was more permanent than water.
{ 5 } - none of the elements could be the ultimate reality.
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Anaximander thought that water was not the ultimate reality because:
{ 1 } - air was more of a life source than water.
{ 2 } - fire was more energetic than water.
{ 3 } - all of the elements were the ultimate reality.
{ 4 } - earth was more permanent than water.
{ 5 } - none of the elements could be the ultimate reality.
Anaximenes, whose ultimate reality was air, may have thought this.
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Anaximander thought that water was not the ultimate reality because:
{ 1 } - air was more of a life source than water.
{ 2 } - fire was more energetic than water.
{ 3 } - all of the elements were the ultimate reality.
{ 4 } - earth was more permanent than water.
{ 5 } - none of the elements could be the ultimate reality.
Heraclitus, whose ultimate reality sometimes appears to be fire, may have thought this.
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Anaximander thought that water was not the ultimate reality because:
{ 1 } - air was more of a life source than water.
{ 2 } - fire was more energetic than water.
{ 3 } - all of the elements were the ultimate reality.
{ 4 } - earth was more permanent than water.
{ 5 } - none of the elements could be the ultimate reality.
For Anaximander, all of the four elements were forms that the apeiron in motion assumed at times.
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Anaximander thought that water was not the ultimate reality because:
{ 1 } - air was more of a life source than water.
{ 2 } - fire was more energetic than water.
{ 3 } - all of the elements were the ultimate reality.
{ 4 } - earth was more permanent than water.
{ 5 } - none of the elements could be the ultimate reality.
There is no evidence that he thought this.
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Anaximander thought that water was not the ultimate reality because:
{ 1 } - air was more of a life source than water.
{ 2 } - fire was more energetic than water.
{ 3 } - all of the elements were the ultimate reality.
{ 4 } - earth was more permanent than water.
{ 5 } - none of the elements could be the ultimate reality.
See page 26. "For Anaximander reasoned that if change in the elements of the cosmos were due to a fight or struggle between them, and if any one of the four elements were all-powerful, or infinite, itc ould have destroyed all of the other elements. Why hasn't water changed everything into itself if it is the most real of them? Anaximander therefore declined to identify the ultimate reality with any one of the four elements."
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