Multiple Choice
We can understand Heraclitus's claim that the basic nature of reality is an "ever-living Fire" as being similar to
A) the modern view that ultimate reality is not matter but energy.
B) Einstein's general theory of relativity.
C) Democritus, in emphasizing the atoms.
D) Anaximenes's view that reality is air.
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