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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

12269	All things are in a state of motion [Heraclitus, by Aristotle]
	Full Idea: All things are in a state of motion.
	From: report of Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE]) by Aristotle - Topics 104b22
	A reaction: This seems right, I would say. It seems to make a 'process' the fundamental category of ontology, rather than an 'object'.

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 2. Eternal Universe

420	The cosmos is eternal not created, and is an ever-living and changing fire [Heraclitus]
	Full Idea: This cosmos, which is the same for all, was not created by any one of the gods or of mankind, but it was ever and is and shall be ever-living fire, kindled and quenched in measure.
	From: Heraclitus (fragments/reports [c.500 BCE], B030), quoted by Clement - Miscellanies 5.1.103