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Single Idea 2064

[filed under theme 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 13. No Identity over Time ]

Full Idea

According to Heracliteans, since things must be changing, and since lack of change can't be a property of anything, then everything is always undergoing change of every kind.

Gist of Idea

If flux is continuous, then lack of change can't be a property, so everything changes in every possible way

Source

comment on Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B030) by Plato - Theaetetus 182a

Book Ref

Plato: 'Theaetetus', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [Penguin 1987], p.82

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The 3 ideas with the same theme [objects are never strictly the same over time]:

2064	If flux is continuous, then lack of change can't be a property, so everything changes in every possible way [Plato on Heraclitus]

21322

We treat slowly changing things as identical for the sake of economy in language [Reid]

6136	Eliminativism about objects gives the best understanding of the Sorites paradox [Merricks]