Hi Will -This is the second posting-The first one did not go through probably due to this antique computer. As to Aristotle I assume you are referring to his static world. Hegel loved Heraclitus and attributed much of his philosophy to him. What i was referring to was two levels of thought common sense logical representational thought and what Hegel called philosophical thought or pure thought. One might think of it as a ground[As Hegel said in a letter to Fichte to be lightly tripped over]Regards Bob