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    It is not the case that If opposites were genuinely unified, the distinction between the opposites doing explanatory work in Heraclitus's own cosmology—wet/dry, sleeping/waking—would be unintelligible.

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    • 1.Distinction and unity are compatible: opposite poles of a magnet remain distinct yet fundamentally unified in one system.
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    • 2.Explanatory work requires only functional or relational difference, not metaphysical separation; unified opposites can differ relationally.
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    • 3.Heraclitus may mean the opposites are unified in process while remaining distinct in conceptual function—not metaphysically identical.
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    • 1.Explanatory distinctions require conceptual separability; unified opposites lose their distinct causal roles in processes.
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    • 2.Heraclitus uses wet/dry and sleeping/waking to explain specific natural changes; genuine unity would collapse these into one principle.
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    • 3.If opposites were truly one, applying them to explain different phenomena would be equivocal and explanatorily empty.
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