Heraclitean
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Heraclitean
1785–95; < Latin Hēraclīte ( us ) (< Greek Hērakleíteios ) + -an
Example Sentences
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“It was an exploration of a Heraclitean principle,” Ms. Strebe said.
From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2019
The Heraclitean precept has been mislaid by a generation of moviemakers more concerned on the whole with their medium than with Man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now that intellectual situation illustrates the sense in which sophistry is a reproduction of the Heraclitean flux.
From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter
The course of time, unless regularly marked by divisions of number, partakes of the indefiniteness of the Heraclitean flux.
From Timaeus by Jowett, Benjamin
For if the Heraclitean flux is extended to every sort of change in every instant of time, how can any thought or word be detained even for an instant?
From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin
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