Anaxagoras. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
·进食，与长肉 ·
阿纳克萨戈拉斯主张的一个原因是解释我们摄取营养的能力。我们吃小麦，我们的肉体增长。当我们吃太多巧克力曲奇饼干时，我们的身体体积增加的是肉，而不是巧克力曲奇饼干。这个想法是我们从所吃食物中提取已经存在的肉。一位古代注释学家（艾修斯，I，3，5）描述了这个理论：
We take in nourishment that is simple and homogeneous, such as bread or water, and by this are nourished hair, veins, arteries, flesh, sinews, bones and all the other parts of the body. Which being so, we must agree that everything that exists is in the nourishment we take in, and that everything derives its growth from things that exist. There must be in that nourishment some parts that are productive of blood, some of sinews, some of bones, and so on - parts which reason alone can apprehend.
（我们摄取简单而均质的营养，如面包或水，通过这些我们滋养头发、静脉、动脉、肌肉、筋膜、骨骼和身体的所有其他部分。既然如此，我们必须同意存在于我们摄入的营养中的一切，一切都从已存在的事物中获得生长。在那种滋养物中必须有一些部分是产生血液的，有一些是产生筋膜的，有一些是产生骨骼的，依此类推 - 这些部分只有理性能够理解。）
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参考资料
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