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Full Idea
The mixed drink, of wine, cheese and barley, separates if it is not stirred.
Gist of Idea
A mixed drink separates if it is not stirred
Source
Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B125)
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.33
A Reaction
Wiggins quotes this, because it seems to be Heraclitus struggling to decide what sortal his drink falls under. I take it to be a problem of vagueness, since separation and mixing occur along a continuum, like a sorites.