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    Challenges→Bodies in motion will remain in motion and bodies at rest will remain at rest, without need of external explanation.

    Descartes himself relies on divine conservation to underwrite persistence, making the claim dependent on theological premises rather than a purely mechanistic principle.

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    • 1.Descartes explicitly invokes God's continuous creative act in Meditations to explain why substances persist moment-to-moment.
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    • 2.Without divine conservation, Descartes lacks a mechanistic explanation for why matter maintains its identity across time.
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    • 3.His system requires God as the ultimate cause of persistence because mechanical laws alone cannot generate continuity ex nihilo.
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    • 1.Divine conservation may be orthogonal to mechanism—God can sustain a purely mechanistic system without undermining its mechanistic character.
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    • 2.Descartes's physics operates independently of divine conservation; his laws of motion work whether theologically grounded or not.
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'theological premise' from 'mechanistic principle' assumes these are competing rather than complementary explanatory levels.
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