阿那克西曼德的“无限者”是一般物质吗?

Is "Unlimited Mass" by Anaximander Matter in General?

在西方哲学史研究界有的一种流行观点：阿那克西曼德的“无限者”已经摆脱了水土火气等古代哲学家所说的基本元素的具体性质和形态，是一种没有任何特殊规定性的“一般的物质、普遍的物质”。本文认为：人们以为可以用来证明这一观点的所有论据──辛普里丘的评论和亚里斯多德的话中所包含的论证，对立物（热与冷、干与湿）产生于“无限者”，“无限者”是对立物即诸元素的统一体──实际上都不能证明它。阿那克西曼德的“无限者”只能是与水土火气等元素同一序列的、说不上质是什么的具体物质形态。只要我们把米利都学派的哲学发展看作一个合情合理的具有内在联系的过程，我们就完全有理由相信这一点。

In philosophical circles of the West there is a popular point of view: 'unlimited mass' by Anaximander has extricated itself from concrete properties and forms of radical elements such as water, earth, fire, air, ect. proposed by ancient philosophers, and is'matter in general or universal material'without any special limitations. The author of this essay holds that all the arguments raised to prove this point-such as comments by Simplicius and Aristotle who thought that the opposites (hot and cool, dry and wet)emerged from 'unlimited mass 'and that 'unlimited mass 'was the unity of all elements opposite each other-actually can prove nothing. So long as we regard the development of philosophy by the school of Miletus as a reasonable process with internal relations, we will readily accept this point.