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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Heraclitus.

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  • This is what the Greek philosopher Heracleitus meant by it.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • This is what the Greek philosopher Heracleitus meant by it.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • This is what the Greek philosopher Heracleitus meant by it.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • This is what the Greek philosopher Heracleitus meant by it.

    God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu … Carlton Pearson 2010

  • THEODORUS: No small, war, indeed, for in Ionia the sect makes rapid strides; the disciples of Heracleitus are most energetic upholders of the doctrine.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • Summon all philosophers — Protagoras, Heracleitus, Empedocles, and the rest of them, one after another, and with the exception of

    Theaetetus 2007

  • Heracleitus, and Heracleitus with his Ephesian successors, and has then disproved the existence both of knowledge and sensation.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • The most ideal and the most sensational have a tendency to pass into one another; Heracleitus, like his great successor Hegel, has both aspects.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • Heracleitus would have acknowledged the ‘uneducated fanatics’ who appealed to his writings.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • He seems to say expressly, that in this work the doctrine of the Heraclitean flux was not to be found; ‘he told the real truth’ (not in the book, which is so entitled, but) ‘privately to his disciples,’ — words which imply that the connexion between the doctrines of Protagoras and Heracleitus was not generally recognized in Greece, but was really discovered or invented by Plato.

    Theaetetus 2007

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