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An idea · Pre-Socratic · first attested 500 BCE

Flux

Everything flows; nothing stays.

Panta rhei — all things flow. Heraclitus's claim that reality is process, not stuff, is the foundational expression of what would later be called process philosophy. The view returns under different names: Hegel's dialectical motion, Bergson's durée, Whitehead's process metaphysics.