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    Everything that moves is a body — Carmelics
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    Everything that moves is a body

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    • 1.Every animal is a body
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    • 2.Every plant is a body
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    • 3.Every mineral is a body
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    • 1.Immaterial souls or intellects, as posited by Neoplatonists and Aristotle, can initiate motion without themselves being bodies.
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    • 2.Aristotle's Unmoved Mover causes celestial motion yet is explicitly non-corporeal, demonstrating mover and body are separable categories.
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    • 1.The supporting syllogism's fourth premise illicitly assumes all moving things reduce to animals, plants, or minerals, committing a false dichotomy.
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    • 2.Celestial spheres in Ptolemaic-Aristotelian cosmology are moved by incorporeal Intelligences, which are neither animal, plant, nor mineral.
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    Every animal is a body83%A body may be either in motion or at rest.79%Every plant is a body79%Everything that moves is either an animal, a plant, or a mineral79%

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    Every animal is a body and every plant is a body and every mineral is a body; everything that moves is either an animal or a plant or a mineral; therefore everything that moves is a body. (Nağāt 82, xvii)
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