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The 19 pages that link to Heraclitus, each with the reason it gives.

• PlatoRelated: His emphasis on change helps frame Plato’s contrast between becoming and stable intelligible reality.

• StoicismRelated: Stoic physics and the concept of logos show clear Heraclitean inheritance.

• Ancient Greek philosophyBroader topic: His account of continual change became a lasting challenge to theories of permanence.

• ParmenidesCompared with: His emphasis on change provides a sharp contrast to Parmenides’ unchanging being.

• EmpedoclesRelated: His emphasis on opposition parallels Strife, though Empedocles gave the forces a different role.

• EphesusRelated: His association with Ephesus connects the city to early Greek philosophy.

• Pre-Socratic philosophyBroader topic: His fragments make becoming and the unity of opposites central philosophical problems.

• ImpermanenceRelated: His surviving fragments present change as fundamental to the world.

• Diogenes LaërtiusBroader topic: His surviving fragments and biography are transmitted through later testimony, including Diogenes.

• Process philosophyBroader topic: His fragments make flux a defining feature of reality.

• Four elementsRelated: His emphasis on fire and continual change anticipates themes incorporated into element theory.

• AnaximanderCompared with: His account of cosmic change offers a later alternative to Anaximander’s apeiron and balance of opposites.

• Allegory of the CaveCompared with: His emphasis on changing experience contrasts with the cave’s ascent toward unchanging intelligible reality.

• Law of noncontradictionCompared with: His emphasis on opposites is often contrasted with Aristotle's defense of noncontradiction.

• XenophanesRelated: Like Xenophanes, he criticized revered poets, though their surviving arguments differ.

• The School of AthensRelated: A solitary, pensive figure in the foreground is traditionally identified as Heraclitus.

• Anaximenes of MiletusCompared with: His emphasis on change offers a different approach to explaining the unity of nature.

• FluxRelated: His river image became the classic expression of reality as flux.

• Fire (classical element)Related: His cosmic fire connects the element with continual transformation.