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
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 Benjamin Jowett
This is the higher meaning of the Heraclitean thought, that fire is the primary element of all things.
From Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity by Harry Collison
Like the Heraclitean fanatics whom Plato has ridiculed in the Theaetetus, they were incapable of giving a reason of the faith that was in them, and had all the animosities of a religious sect.
From Timaeus by Benjamin Jowett
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