Listening to the Logos rather than to me, it is wise to agree that all things are in reality one thing and one thing only.
Heraclitus, Fragment 50
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
14 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2013
This is exquisite, Cherie, and makes me long for summer……..
I would be satisfied with a bit of spring
But… “Heraclitus stresses the importance of (what he calls) “the logos”. This term can have a variety of meanings: word, statement, reason, law, ratio, proportion, among others. (Barnes translates it as account.) It is related to the verb “to say” – a logos is something that is said. …” (http://faculty.washington.edu/smcohen/320/heracli.htm).
Oh well, that doesn’t exactly clear things up. And in proposing “all things are in reality one thing and one thing only” he can be used by everybody… a unified field as some physicists like to suggest, a god, a whatever… But as ever, we don’t really know, do we? Why are we so reluctant to admit that we don’t really know what’s going on? Drives me mad, the many ways of falsifying certainty.
I don’t know why people don’t admit they don’t know… Life is for learning and exploring. There is always an element of doubt!
Half the fun of your posts, Cherry, is reading the back-n-forths between you and Don. HA!
I find our exchanges fun and interesting
I am glad you enjoy them too.
I know what I know what I know….As for the rest I have no doubt that I know nothing. Such a beautiful flower!
Claudius
It was a little gem hiding in plain view (for a photographer that knows how to look
)
Claude says: “I know what I know what I know”
Don QuiScottiesays: “How do you know that?”
I forgot to make reference in my reply to your comment that ‘I don’t know but I believe’.
But I probably didn’t need to because you know that already
Andrew always worries about what I know that he doesn’t know. I would too if I were him…..;-)
Whither individual nature?
All pieces of the bigger puzzle.