more clearly (Robinson 91). This notion conveys that although man recognizes the river to be the same river he placed his foot in once before, the waters continuously stream; thus creating a new river. The body of water appears to be the identical river, however, additional waters have emerged within it. It is the same; it is also not the same.
This introduces the next of Heraclitus' views, the opposition of reality. He believed in the oneness of objects that are unlike and even sometimes opposites. Using the example of the river, it is the same river and it is a different river. Something clearly cannot "be" and "not be" at the same instant. Heraclitus defends this idea by saying that the river is "one" body that holds "many" waters. The river is in a
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