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    Supports→Truth is communicated through signs that require interpretation, not through direct disclosure.

    Heraclitus' own obscure remarks point to the truth in the same way natural evidence does.

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    Heraclitus regards the cosmos as an ordered system like a language that can be read or heard and understood by those who are attuned to it. That language is not just the physical evidence around us (“Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to those with barbarian souls” DKB107/LMD33); the sheer accumulation of information is not the same as wisdom (see the rebuke in DK22B40/LMD20, quoted above). Although the evidence of the senses is important (see DKB55/LMD31), careful and thoughtful inquiry is also ne

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