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    It is not the case that A movable body comes to rest when the influence of the mover ends

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    • 1.Projectile motion demonstrates that bodies continue moving after losing direct contact with their mover, contradicting immediate cessation at mover's end.
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    • 2.Aristotle himself acknowledged this problem, positing that the medium (air) becomes a secondary mover, suggesting rest requires exhaustion of transferred motive capacity, not mere cessation of the original mover's influence.
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    • 3.If the medium sustains motion after the primary mover disengages, then rest is not determined by the mover's influence ending but by complex dissipation through successive causes.
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    • 1.John Philoponus argued that movers impart an internal impressed force (antiperistasis critique), meaning motion persists through an acquired property intrinsic to the body itself.
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    • 2.If motive force is impressed upon and inheres in the body, the cessation of the external mover's influence does not terminate motion, since the body now carries its own causal principle of movement.
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    • 3.Rest on this account requires the exhaustion of the impressed force, making the claim's causal structure—tying rest directly to the mover's cessation—logically incomplete.
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    • 1.The rest of the whole is caused by the rest of one of its parts insofar as the movable is other than the mover
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    • 2.When the mover's influence ends, the movable ceases to be acted upon and therefore comes to rest
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