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[60] According to American philosopher W. V. O. Quine, the river parable illustrates that the river is a process through time. One cannot step twice into the same river-stage. [61] Professor M. M. McCabe has argued that the three statements on rivers should all be read as fragments from a discourse. McCabe suggests reading them as though they ...
In Cratylus' eponymous Platonic dialogue, the character of Socrates states Heraclitus' claim that one cannot step twice into the same stream. [2] According to Aristotle, Cratylus went a step beyond his master's doctrine and proclaimed that it cannot even be done once.
Heraclitus proclaimed that the basic nature of all things is change; he posits strife, ἡ ἔρις ("strife, conflict"), as the underlying basis of all reality, which is itself thus defined by change. [9] The quotation from Heraclitus appears in Plato's Cratylus twice; first, in 401d: [10]
[further explanation needed] Heraclitus, in contrast, believed that the world is a process of ceaseless change, flux and decay. Reality for Heraclitus is dynamic and ephemeral, in a state of constant flux, as in his famous statement that it is impossible to step twice into the same river (since the river is flowing).
In "We step and do not step into the same rivers; we are and we are not", both Heraclitus's and Plato's object simultaneously must, in some sense, be both what it now is and have the potential (dynamic) of what it might become. [5] So little remains of Heraclitus' aphorisms that not much about his philosophy can be said with certainty.
Heraclitus (c. 540–480 BCE) viewed the world as being in a state of constant flux, stating that one cannot step into the same river twice. He also emphasized the role of logos , which he saw as an underlying order governing both the inner self and the external world. [ 15 ]
Blink Twice is not based on a true story, but it was inspired by some of Kravitz's real-life experiences as a woman in Hollywood. She began writing the film in 2017 amid the #MeToo movement.
Nietzsche paraphrased him as saying, "You use names for things as though they rigidly, persistently endured; yet even the stream into which you step a second time is not the one you stepped into before." Heraclitus's way of thinking was the result of perception and intuition. He despised rational, logical, conceptual thought. His pronouncements ...