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Heraclitus- Russell’s History of Western Philosophy, chapter by chapter (4)
Yesterday we looked at how Pythagoras sought to explain the world through numbers. Reducing things to numbers reduces them to unchanging facts, or at the very least, to unchanging patterns. Heraclitus believed that nothing ever stayed the same, and it is this which we shall look at today.
Background
Most of what we know of Heraclitus comes from Plato and Aristotle’s writings. We know that he was…
