  Obviously this reading is not charitable to Heraclitus. There are, moreover, reasons to question it. First, some of Heraclitus’ views are incompatible with material monism (to be discussed later), so that the background of his theories must be rethought. Second, there is evidence that Heraclitus’ flux theory is weaker than that attributed to him by this reading.  Third, there is evidence that his view of the coincidence of opposites is weaker than that attributed to him here. 