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Heraclitean, a. (n.)|ˌhɛrəklaɪˈtiːən|
Also Heracleitean.
[f. L. Hēraclītē-us, Gr. Ἡρακλείτειος, pertaining to Hēraclītus + -an.]
a. Of, pertaining to, or of the style of Heraclitus of Ephesus, a Greek philosopher of the 5th century b.c. (called the ‘weeping philosopher’), or his physical or other theories.
1791W. Enfield Hist. Philos. I. 443 Plato himself, when he was young, learned the Heraclitean philosophy from Cratylus, and adopted that part which treated of the nature and motion of matter. 1864Reader No. 105. 824/1 Full of their Heraclitean fire. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 426 Beginning with the mysteries and the Heracleitean alternation of opposites. 1955J. K. Baxter Fire & Anvil 65 A Heracleitean cosmos.
b. n. A disciple of Heraclitus.
1882R. Adamson in Encycl. Brit. XIV. 784/2 The extreme Heracliteans, as Cratylus, rejected the proposition, or combination of words, as expressing a unity and permanence not to be found in things.
Hence Heracliˈteanism; also Heracleiteanism.
1885Pater Marius I. 133 Heracliteanism had grown to be almost identical with the famous doctrine of the sophist Protagoras. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 21 July 531/1 Professor Laird yet finds it in him to relax his comity when dealing with the epistemological Heracleiteanism of Gentile. |