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37. If all things should become smoke, then perception would be by the nostrils.

Arist. ‘Some think that odour is a smoky exhalation,... and that every one is brought in contact with this in smelling. So Herakleitos says that if all things,’ etc. The reference is originally to the conflagration of the universe [ἐκπύρωσις].

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37 · Testimonies of his contemporaries (Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Ion of Chios, Herodotus) — Pythagoras · The Conscious Library