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Mourelatos has in mind when he explains that: What [Heraclitus] wants to know is not an aggregate or array of things in space but a γνώµη, a thought, and τὸ σοφόν, “the wise.” His scorn for πολυµαθίη [‘polymathy’] is probably connected with his critical stance towards the paratactic metaphysics of mere
paratactic metaphysics of his polymathic ancestors and contemporaries. Indeed, it is through this feature that we may take Heraclitus to be a philosopher and this, according to Heraclitus is what sets philosophical inquiry apart from, on the one hand, ordinary inquiry, and, again according to Heraclitus