Is the Only Constant Change?

[Dimmesdale]

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. There is nothing permanent except change." - Heraclitus

Is this statement factual? I think not. If there were only change, there would be no way to measure said change. A change of State A to State B assumes that such a shift in fact took place. If there were truly only change, we could not be cognizant of it. We would never be able to remember states that came before. Memory, then, at least, is a constant. No memory equals no gauge of change. And hence there could be no awareness of anything because A would never have truly come to be. It would "already be a new state", and hence there would be no time. No time, no awareness, and therefore no philosophy. Only nescient chaos.

[Dimmesdale]

[Replying to Dimmesdale in post #1]

In other words, to expand, the Isness of a fact inheres in memory, reproduces its extenuating influence like an aroma, and that points to its transcendence of temporality.... For a fact "does not let go." Its factualness, or facticity, is a signifier of Truth, and Truth as it were upholds It in the face of all ephemerality.