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Which claims does Heraclitus assert, as opposed to the misreadings commonly attributed to him?
Hints
- He is a philosopher of ordered change, not of chaos.
- the third option is the standard misreading of his position.
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- A. A thing can persist through continuous change
- B. Opposites depend on one another for their meaning
- D. The world is ordered by an intelligible principle
Why
Heraclitus holds that change is ordered by the logos and that stability is real, achieved through change rather than despite it. "Nothing is stable" is the misreading, and it inverts his actual view.
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