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1. HERACLITUS
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s
not the same river and he’s not the same man”

2. Life of Heraclitus
Heraclitus (late 6th century BC) was a pre-
Socratic Greek philosopher, a native of
Ephesus, an important city on the Ionian
coast of Asia Minor, not far from Miletus
the birthplace of philosophy.

3. Contributions
 He proposed that everything in nature seemed to be in a constant state of
flux or change.
 He assumed fire to be the physis, because in the presence of fire everything
transformed into something else.
 He stated that basic fact about the world was that nothing ever “is” rather
everything is “becoming”.
 Nothing is either hot or cold but is becoming hotter or colder, nothing is fast
or slow but becoming faster or slower.
 He believed that all things existed somewhere between polar opposites,e.g.,
up-down, heat-cold, Life-Death,Night-day,winter-summer. For him one end
of the pole fined the other and the two poles were inserparable.