Single Idea 579

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

Full Idea

Cratylus was appalled that Heraclitus said you could not step twice into the same river, because it was already going too far to admit stepping into the same river once.

Gist of Idea

Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once

Source

report of Cratylus (fragments/reports [c.425 BCE]) by Aristotle - Metaphysics 1010a

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.101


A Reaction

Compare Idea 427.

Related Idea

Idea 427 It is not possible to step twice into the same river [Heraclitus]