# Heraclitus survives as later-quoted fragments, not an autograph book or civil register Date: 499 ## The fact Stanford and IEP state that the public file is later quotations, not a surviving book from Ephesus. Opacity of a famous sage is the path. It is one event. ## Context High confidence on the gap. This forbids a fake 500 BCE publication Fact as a civil-registry row. Heraclitus Shared work with other named actors remains in the record. Heraclitus’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death. Almost no contemporaneous file. Conventional Ephesian floruit is late 6th/early 5th century BCE. Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file. ## Evidence and sources Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus independently describe this instrument. Official or archival record: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). ## Significance Do not invent an Ephesian autograph. Do write the gap. ## What is established and what is not Established as a dated public record of this instrument. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Heraclitus. They are not a public rating. The driver `personal-data-protection` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Heraclitus did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct. Driver `personal-data-protection` is attached because the Significance sentence names a mechanism from Heraclitus survives as later-quoted fragments, not an autograph book or civil register at -0500-01-01, not because a standing driver list needed coverage. Official page: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/. Independent page: https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/. ## People - Heraclitus: https://factrail.ai/people/heraclitus ## Drivers - Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection ## Sources - https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/ - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hrc-no-autograph