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Full Idea
The unlimited partakes neither of the round nor of the straight, because it has no ends nor edges.
Gist of Idea
The unlimited has no shape and is endless
Source
Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 137e)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Plato IV (Cratylus,Parmenides,Hippias Maj, Min)', ed/tr. Fowler,H.N. [Harvard Loeb 1926], p.237
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| 1495 | Anaximander introduced the idea that the first principle and element of things was the Boundless [Anaximander, by Simplicius] |
| 404 | Things begin and end in the Unlimited, and are balanced over time according to justice [Anaximander] |
| 405 | The essential nature, whatever it is, of the non-limited is everlasting and ageless [Anaximander] |
| 469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
| 225 | The unlimited has no shape and is endless [Plato] |
| 20461 | The basic ideas of fields and particles are merged in quantum mechanics [Rovelli] |