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    Supports→Descartes' account of motion supports the 'reciprocity of transfer': the transportation of body AB from the vicinity of body CD cannot be conceived without body CD simultaneously being transported from the vicinity of body AB.

    Descartes states: 'we cannot conceive of the body AB being transported from the vicinity of the body CD without also understanding that the body CD is transported from the vicinity of the body AB' (Pr II 29).

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    Descartes
    # Descartes René Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician from the 1600s who fundamentally changed how people think about knowledge and the mind. He's famous for the idea "I think, therefore I am" (cogito ergo sum), which means that the very fact that you can think proves you exist—a foundation for modern philosophy. He also invented the coordinate system used in mathematics (the x and y axes on a graph), which connects geometry and algebra in practical ways we still use today.
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    body AB / body CD(as labels for the objects whose relative motion is being described)
    Placeholder names for two separate physical objects used as examples in the explanation (like calling them 'Object 1' and 'Object 2').
    conceive(as in 'we cannot conceive of the body AB being transported')
    To form an idea or image of something in your mind; to be able to imagine or think of something.
    transported(as in 'being transported from the vicinity')
    Moved from one place to another.
    vicinity(as used to describe the spatial relationship between moving bodies)
    The area or space immediately surrounding something; being near or close to something.

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    Nevertheless, Descartes’ hypothesis of motion may sanction a species of relative motion, since his phrase, “considered at rest”, implies that the choice of which bodies are at rest or in motion is purely arbitrary. According to the “relational” theory (or at least the more strict versions of relationism), space, time, and motion are just relations among bodies, and not separately existing entities or properties that are in any way independent of material bodies. Motion only exists as a “relative

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