Single Idea 11091

[catalogued under 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers]

Full Idea

You can bathe in the same river twice, but not in the same river stage.

Gist of Idea

You can bathe in the same river twice, but not in the same river stage

Source

comment on Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE]) by Willard Quine - Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis 1

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.65


A Reaction

This seems to make Quine a 'perdurantist', committed to time-slices of objects, rather than whole objects enduring through change.