Professor Michael Stokes interprets Heraclitus's use of logos as a public fact like a proposition or formula; like Guthrie, he views Heraclitus as a materialist, so he grants Heraclitus would not have considered these as abstract objects or immaterial things. Another possibility is the logos referred to the truth, or to the book itself.Olof Gigon, Untersuchungen Zu Heraklit, p. 4 Classicist Walther Kranz translated it as "sense".
Professor Michael Stokes interprets Heraclitus's use of logos as a public fact like a proposition or formula; like Guthrie, he views Heraclitus as a materialist, so he grants Heraclit,us would not have considered these as abstract objects or immaterial things. Another possibility is the logos referred to the truth, or to the book itself.Olof Gigon, Untersuchungen Zu Heraklit, p. 4 Classicist Walther Kranz translated it as "sense".