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    It is not the case that Everything that moves is a body

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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