Heraclitus Central Idea

Heraclitus’ central idea, the unity of opposites, is the claim that the differences between two phenomena are in fact what allow their continued existence possible. Heraclitus argues that without the opposite of any one phenomenon, it is impossible to identify what is being opposed, which causes each phenomenon to depend on the other or their identity. In this, Heraclitus argues that all things are one through a unity of opposites. Heraclitus offers a number of examples of the different forms of opposites.
Of the two different categories of opposites that Heraclitus presents, the first are opposites which are bought into being by way of a single subject of phenomenon. For this notion, Heraclitus offers three different examples, with the first