The Lexicon · Genealogy · Antiquity
HERACLITUS
c. 535–c. 475 BCE
Panta Rhei (The Layer Cake Doctrine)
All flows; one does not step into the same river twice. CoCA's Layer Cake Pages (§2.2.2) take this as institutional rule: every page rewritten, every prior writing shown through. The river is the binder. The reader steps into a different version each time. The continuity is not preservation; it is the visible trace of revision. We have stopped pretending the river is the same. The binder is the river.