Answer by Mr. Smith for Is there a theory of time consistent with Heraclitus?
No, Heraclitus believed our world, the universe (or the cosmos) had no beginning nor end, "it always was and always will be", as he says here: "This world-order [kosmos], the same of all, no god nor...
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I'm going to give you the physicists point of view.As it seems, quantum mechanics suggests that time is in fact inexistent. It is an artificial construction that allows an effective model of what we...
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One crude answer is that any modern rejection of the Eliatic account (as preserved by Newton, Einstein, and most modern physics with its "timeless" mathematization of "spacetime") would count as...
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Newton's notions of time (and motion) were Aristotelian, a continuous magnitude, a continuum generated by motion. But that was not Heraclitus's flux. Plato kept it under the name of becoming, and only...
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The aphorism "πάνταρει" (everything flows) which is attributed to Heraclitus τὰὄνταἰέναιτεπάντακαὶμένεινοὐδέν"All entities move and nothing remains still"// Plato's Cratylus is related to the nature of...
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Heraclitus is recorded as saying:Upon those who step into the same river, different and again different waters flow (Arius Didymus, Dox. Gr.)It is not possible to step twice into the same river...it...
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