Question

This thinker describes a drunk man as being “led along, stumbling, by a beardless boy” while his soul is moist. According to Diogenes Laertius, this thinker hoped that familiarity would “breed contempt” when he deposited his writings at a temple of Artemis. A book by Shimon Malin is titled for this thinker’s claim that “nature loves to hide.” It’s not Empedocles, but this thinker wrote of fire (10[1])transforming to water (-5[1])transforming to earth in his “downward path,” and championed the unity of strife and justice. Often given the epithet “the obscure” for his self-contradictory (10[1])statements, this pre-Socratic philosopher from Ephesus promoted the idea of ekpyrosis (“eck-pie-ROH-siss”), or cycles (-5[1])of conflagration and fire. For 10 points, name this “weeping” (10[1])philosopher, (10[3]-5[1])who declared “all things flow” and that one cannot step in the same river twice. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Heraclitus
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Omer KeskinOxford ADurham A6610
Sam FooCambridge AEdinburgh69-5
Jaime Salamanca CamachoImperial BWarwick9310
Enoch YuenImperial ACambridge B106-5
Ted WarnerBristolOxford B11610
Eileen PengOxford CKCL11710
Ian DewanKielDurham B11710
Jake RobertsDurham BKiel117-5
Andrew FisherSheffieldCambridge C11710
Ben Russell JonesEdinburghCambridge A13210
Brendan BethlehemCambridge BImperial A13310