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Quotations attributed to Heraclitus speak of rivers, measured fire and opposing tensions. How might order persist through change, and what do the later writers who quoted him leave uncertain?
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Guided course · Module 5 · Lesson 19
What stays the same when things change?
Heraclitus finds order in change, and Parmenides asks whether being could ever begin. Their surviving words are kept apart from the later reports that frame how they are read.