15 January 2007

Heraclitus

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Philosophy 1200/2200 Diagnostic Paper Topic


In Fragment 14, Heraclitus claims that "In the same river we both step and do not step, we are and are not." What is paradoxical about this statement? Why is it not merely paradoxical, i.e., what is he saying ontologically and epistemologically about the world?

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Wow. Don't you know that? I think I know exactly what I'm going to say!

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