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Cratylus

Greek philosopher of the late fifth century B.C. Cratylus was a student of Heraclitus and drew extreme relativist conclusions from his master's teachings on the universal flux of things. In particular, he denied that phenomena have any qualitative fixity; hence, either one can say nothing about ongoing phenomena or one can say anything at all. Heraclitus taught that one cannot step into the same river twice; Cratylus, that one cannot step into it even once. He believed that one can only point things out, not make assertions about them.

WORKS

Fragments in Russian translation:
In A. Makovel'skii, Dosokratiki, part 3. Kazan, 1919. Pages 188–89.

REFERENCE

Istoriia filosofii, vol. 1 [Moscow] 1940. (See subject index.)

A. F. LOSEV

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