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  • Keep in mind the 140 character format, if you're not familiar with Twitter, and the need for a topic announcement with each offering, as every one of them has to stand on its own or be lost in the fast moving stream of Heraclitean tweets.

    Tom Morris: Susan Boyle Energizes the World 2009

  • Empedocles seems to have invoked Heraclitean themes, and some Hippocratic treatises imitated Heraclitean language and presented applications of Heraclitean themes.

    Doctor, My Eyes 2009

  • By Heraclitean Fire » Daily Links on July 14, 2006 at 5: 20 am

    WordPress Theme Designers: Slapping You Upside the Head « Lorelle on WordPress 2006

  • —Almost all the pluralities of our current poetries would seem contained in the poem “That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection”—the (relatively) new Elliptical poetry—add Paul Celan, add Finnegans Wake—, the (relatively) old Language poetries, the (always) continuous narrative and formal poetries, and the imagistic outriders and cattle herders that for a century now have been in the saddle.

    The Best American Poetry 2008 2008

  • Particulars change, may even be subject to change in any respect, and may even be subject to change in every respect at any given moment, i.e., total Heraclitean flux.

    Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

  • This arrangement of Hopkins '"That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire ..." (text below) goes off the rails about 30 seconds in -- assuming it was ever on them.

    John Lundberg: Turning Poetry Into Music 2008

  • It is this perverted form of the Heraclitean philosophy which is supposed to effect the final overthrow of Protagorean sensationalism.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • He seems to say expressly, that in this work the doctrine of the Heraclitean flux was not to be found; ‘he told the real truth’ (not in the book, which is so entitled, but) ‘privately to his disciples,’ — words which imply that the connexion between the doctrines of Protagoras and Heracleitus was not generally recognized in Greece, but was really discovered or invented by Plato.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • 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?

    Theaetetus 2007

  • His extreme dislike to the Heraclitean fanatics, which may be compared with the dislike of Theaetetus to the materialists, and his ready acceptance of the noble words of Socrates, are noticeable traits of character.

    Theaetetus 2007

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