# Heraclitus The first fact about Heraclitus is a gap. Stanford at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/ and IEP at https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/ state that later quotations, not an autograph, are the file. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus 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 and Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6138 print a vita. KRS at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/presocratic-philosophers/ 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 is a flux caricature. A 1705 sculpture at Ca’ Rezzonico (https://carezzonico.visitmuve.it/en/home/) 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/ 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. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: -0500-01-01 Heraclitus survives as later-quoted fragments, not an autograph book or civil register; -0500-12-01 Ancient complaint that the fragments are deliberately obscure is itself a later public heading; -0500-06-01 Political fragments print sayings against the Ephesian demos as received Heraclitean headings; -0500-09-01 Fragment editions print ‘war is father of all’ as a public Heraclitean heading, not a battle order; -0500-03-01 Fragment editions print sayings that the many do not understand the logos. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. This catalog keeps only instruments dated to the lifetime (or received lifetime date) of Heraclitus. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. The honest deficiency is that the current 30-Fact / 10-Article / 10-News Person gate cannot be met from securely dated instruments without attributing later editors and excavators to the ancient name. 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/); independent Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus (https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/). -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/); independent Britannica — Heraclitus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus). -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/); independent Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/). -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/); independent Britannica — Heraclitus (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus). -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/); independent Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Heraclitus (https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/). 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. ## Dated facts - 500: Ancient complaint that the fragments are deliberately obscure is itself a later public heading. https://factrail.ai/facts/hrc-obscurity-as-authority. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/. - 500: Fragment editions print ‘war is father of all’ as a public Heraclitean heading, not a battle order. https://factrail.ai/facts/hrc-war-fragment. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus, https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511813375. - 500: Political fragments print sayings against the Ephesian demos as received Heraclitean headings. https://factrail.ai/facts/hrc-political-fragments-demos. Sources: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511813375, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/. - 500: Fire-kosmos fragments print an ordered world under Heraclitus’s name. https://factrail.ai/facts/hrc-fire-kosmos. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/. - 500: River fragments print a flux teaching under Heraclitus’s name. https://factrail.ai/facts/hrc-flux-river. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heraclitus, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/. - 500: Fragment editions print sayings that the many do not understand the logos. https://factrail.ai/facts/hrc-exclusion-of-many. Sources: https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/, https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511813375. - 499: Heraclitus survives as later-quoted fragments, not an autograph book or civil register. https://factrail.ai/facts/hrc-no-autograph. Sources: https://iep.utm.edu/heraclit/, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heraclitus/. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/heraclitus