Complete the account of the logos.
The logos is the ______ structure that orders all change, and the word carries the senses of word, account, ratio and ______ at once. Heraclitus insists that it is ______ and available to everyone, which is why he finds it culpable that most people live as though ______.
Word bank: rational · reason · public · asleep · hidden
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- The term deliberately fuses several meanings.
- His complaint depends on the principle being available rather than concealed.
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The logos is the rational structure that orders all change, and the word carries the senses of word, account, ratio and reason at once. Heraclitus insists that it is public and available to everyone, which is why he finds it culpable that most people live as though asleep.
The complaint only bites because the logos is public: if it were hidden, failing to grasp it would be no fault. That is what makes his contempt for the "sleepers" more than snobbery.
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