Heraclitus: We are and we are not!
History of Philosophy 3
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6 min readMar 24, 2024
No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. — Heraclitus
Thales claimed that the arkhe was water, Anaximandros said it was apeiron, Anaximenes claimed it was air, and Pythagoras asserted that it was numbers. Heraclitus opposed all of these by defining the arche in a slightly different…
