Heraclitus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Returning to perception, it is regarded as due to an interaction between the object and the sense-organ, both of which, according to the doctrine of Heraclitus, are always changing, and both of which, in changing, change the percept.

What about ethos, the first term of Heraclitus’ fragment? To our ears it sounds like “ethics.” This loads ethos, a Greek word unencumbered by piousness, with all the moralism of Hebrew, Roman, and Christian religiosity. If we try to strip away the ethics from ethos, we find it carries more the meaning of “habit.” Heraclitus might be saying that eth