Heraclitus

The first fact about Heraclitus is a gap. Stanford at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/ (opens in a new tab) and IEP at https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/ (opens in a new tab) state that later quotations, not an autograph, are the file. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus (opens in a new tab) agrees. This catalog therefore refuses a 500 BCE birth Fact as if it were a civil-registry row. Perseus Diogenes at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0258 (opens in a new tab) and Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6138 (opens in a new tab) print a vita. KRS at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/presocratic-philosophers/ (opens in a new tab) prints anti-demos and war-is-father lines as received. Perseus Cratylus at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0172 (opens in a new tab) is a flux caricature. A 1705 sculpture at Ca’ Rezzonico (https://carezzonico.visitmuve.it/en/home/ (opens in a new tab)) is an imagined face. The offsets are dated honesty and access. SEP and IEP warn. KRS and Perseus make fragments and testimony copyable. UNESCO Ephesus at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1018/ (opens in a new tab) conserves the received city. Logos-as-common and dike-in-strife are split improving rows, not rebates. What the score must not say: that he wrote a surviving book; that 500 BCE is a file; that Diogenes is a witness with a notebook; that a 2015 listing is his harbour works; that ‘everything flows’ is a numbered autograph. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on SEP/KRS/UNESCO as public objects, low on anecdotes and on unique political coefficients. Related people are Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes Laertius, later editors. 1957 KRS is not 500 BCE. 2015 is UNESCO. 1705 is marble. The useful question is which later public pages still move obscurity, anti-demos sayings, and fragment-access under his name. Keep SEP KRS Diogenes and Ephesus listing on separate dates. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation. Hostile vita slander is not upgraded. Off-family indicator padding is refused. Confidence is high on named public pages, medium on unique coefficients, low on anecdote. On the kept graph: -0500-01-01 (cost, driver personal-data-protection): Heraclitus survives as later-quoted fragments, not an autograph book or civil register — official Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/ (opens in a new tab)); independent Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus (https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/ (opens in a new tab)). -0500-12-01 (cost, driver institutional-corruption): Ancient complaint that the fragments are deliberately obscure is itself a later public heading — official Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/ (opens in a new tab)); independent Britannica — Heraclitus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus (opens in a new tab)). -0500-06-01 (cost, driver democratic-resilience): Political fragments print sayings against the Ephesian demos as received Heraclitean headings — official Kirk, Raven, Schofield — The Presocratic Philosophers (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/presocratic-philosophers/ (opens in a new tab)); independent Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/ (opens in a new tab)). -0500-09-01 (cost, driver political-polarization): Fragment editions print ‘war is father of all’ as a public Heraclitean heading, not a battle order — official Kirk, Raven, Schofield — The Presocratic Philosophers (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/presocratic-philosophers/ (opens in a new tab)); independent Britannica — Heraclitus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus (opens in a new tab)). -0500-03-01 (cost, driver income-inequality): Fragment editions print sayings that the many do not understand the logos — official Kirk, Raven, Schofield — The Presocratic Philosophers (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/presocratic-philosophers/ (opens in a new tab)); independent Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus (https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/ (opens in a new tab)). A Driver is attached only where a mechanism can be named. The public score, when later computed, is formula-derived only. Sources named on each Fact page are the causal evidence; Wikipedia is not. Allegations stay allegations. Contested ancient evidence stays contested.