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Definition of Heraclitus

1. Noun. A presocratic Greek philosopher who said that fire is the origin of all things and that permanence is an illusion as all things are in perpetual flux (circa 500 BC).

Definition of Heraclitus

1. Proper noun. An ancient Greek philosopher. ¹

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Literary usage of Heraclitus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"heraclitus (535-475 BC) was born in Ephesus, the son of a noble family. ... He was serious, critical, and pessimistic, independent in his heraclitus opinion ..."

2. History of Philosophy by William Turner (1903)
"heraclitus is, therefore, the connecting link between earlier and later Ionian ... The doctrines of heraclitus resemble the fundamental tenets of the Stoics ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"heraclitus (535-475 BC) ... Few men have influenced the world by their thought more deeply than heraclitus. He was the inventor of the Logos, from which the ..."

4. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"However, though this seem to have been the genuine doctrine, both of heraclitus and Zeno ;2 yet others of their followers afterwards divided thèse two ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"With heraclitus evolution meant the return of all things into the primal ... While heraclitus had laid down his doctrine of eternal becoming rather by ..."

6. Ancient European Philosophy: The History of Greek Philosophy Psychologically by Denton Jaques Snider (1903)
"But heraclitus emphatically declares the Being of Non-Being against Parmenides, ... Then heraclitus also affirmed the counterpart to the foregoing ..."

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