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Heraclitus clearly did NOT believe that:

    { 1 } - logos unified reality.
    { 2 } - fire was the ultimate reality.
    { 3 } - logos was the ultimate reality.
    { 4 } - reality did not change.
    { 5 } - fire was a symbol for logos.

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Heraclitus clearly did NOT believe that:

See fragment 91 on page 32. Thinking makes one aware of logos, which is common to all things and unifies them.

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Heraclitus clearly did NOT believe that:

    { 1 } - logos unified reality.
    { 2 } - fire was the ultimate reality.
    { 3 } - logos was the ultimate reality.
    { 4 } - reality did not change.
    { 5 } - fire was a symbol for logos.

Fragments 20, 26, and 28 on page 32 suggest that he does believe this.

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Heraclitus clearly did NOT believe that:

    { 1 } - logos unified reality.
    { 2 } - fire was the ultimate reality.
    { 3 } - logos was the ultimate reality.
    { 4 } - reality did not change.
    { 5 } - fire was a symbol for logos.

Fragment 91 on page 32 suggests that he does believe this.

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Heraclitus clearly did NOT believe that:

    { 1 } - logos unified reality.
    { 2 } - fire was the ultimate reality.
    { 3 } - logos was the ultimate reality.
    { 4 } - reality did not change.
    { 5 } - fire was a symbol for logos.

Heraclitus' comparison in fragments 41 and 81 of reality to a river that is always changing expresses his emphasis on the changing nature of reality. See pp. 31-33.

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Heraclitus clearly did NOT believe that:

    { 1 } - logos unified reality.
    { 2 } - fire was the ultimate reality.
    { 3 } - logos was the ultimate reality.
    { 4 } - reality did not change.
    { 5 } - fire was a symbol for logos.

The explicit comparison of God to fire in fragment 36 suggests that fire may have been only a symbol for the ultimate reality for Heraclitus, and other fragements suggest that logos is his ultimate reality.

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