Heracliteanism

American

[her-uh-klahy-tee-uh-niz-uhm, -klahy-tee-] / ˌhɛr əˈklaɪ ti əˌnɪz əm, -klaɪˈti- /

noun

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.

Etymology

Origin of Heracliteanism

First recorded in 1880–85; Heraclitean + -ism

Example Sentences

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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?

From Project Gutenberg

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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