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8853952 No.8853952 [Reply] [Original]

>If there were no sun, it would be night.

What did he mean by this?

>> No.8853972
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8853972

Simple astrophysics, lad.
Nothing to bother over.

>> No.8854020

IT MEANS THERE NEEDS TO BE A SENSE OF 'LYRICISM' AND THAT'S WHAT THE MOON IS THERE FOR

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>>8853952
What he meant was the lack of a thing, is something else's abundance of it.

In other words, it is either one thing or the other, under the hidden categorical third.

In other words, day and night exist because of each other, not in spite of each other.

The dual modality - day, night
The third observer - day-night transformation

Heraclitus was about the primacy of the conscious being as the counterpart to nature, being able to cogitate and organize the transformations found in nature. In the third to we find reconciliation in paradox.