ABSTRACT
Anaxagoras is faced, as his predecessors had been, with the problem of ‘the one and the many’.1 How could the one remain ‘one’ while accounting for the many? Anaxagoras tries to avoid the difficulties Empedocles got into in trying to explain physical coming to be and passing away in terms of the combination and dissolution of logical elements. This is partly Anaxagoras’ difficulty, too, when he tries to account for the divisibility of things.
