Heraclitus viewed'logos' as giving what to the world?
Chaos
Structure
Indecision
Ambiguity
Answer
Heraclitus was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in Ephesus, Ionia, in the 6th century BCE. He is known for his doctrine of flux, which holds that everything is constantly changing and that there is no permanent substance in the world. Heraclitus also believed that the logos, or divine reason, was the force that gave structure and order to the world.
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