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. And again, because they
saw that all this world of nature is in movement and that about that
which changes no true statement can be made, they said that of course,
regarding that which everywhere in every respect is changing,
nothing could truly be affirmed. It was this belief that blossomed
into the most extreme of the views above mentioned, that of the
professed Heracliteans, such as was held by Cratylus, who finally
did not think it right to say anything but only moved his finger,
and criticized Heraclitus for saying that it is impossible to step
twice into the same river; for he thought one could not do it even
once.
But we shall say in answer to this argument also that while
there is some justification for their thinking that the changing, when
it is changing, does not exist, yet it is after all disputable; for
that which is losing a quality has something of that which is being
lost, and of that which is coming to be, something must already be.
And in general if a thing is perishing, will be present something that
exists; and if a thing is coming to be, there must be something from
which it comes to be and something by which it is generated, and
this process cannot go on ad infinitum.-But, leaving these
arguments, let us insist on this, that it is not the same thing to
change in quantity and in quality. Grant that in quantity a thing is
not constant; still it is in respect of its form that we know each
thing
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