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Heracliteanism

[ her-uh-klahy-tee-uh-niz-uhm, -klahy-tee- ]

noun

  1. the philosophy of Heraclitus, maintaining the perpetual change of all things, the only abiding thing being the logos, or orderly principle, according to which the change takes place.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Heracliteanism1

First recorded in 1880–85; Heraclitean + -ism
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Example Sentences

The entire modern theory of "development," in all its various phases, proved or unprovable,—what is it but old Heracliteanism awake once more in a new world, and grown to full proportions?

But he has no analysis of sensible perception such as Plato attributes to him; nor is there any reason to suppose that he pushed his philosophy into that absolute negation in which Heracliteanism was sunk in the age of Plato.

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