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    It is not the case that External resistance can terminate a mover's influence on a movable body

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    • 1.A mover's influence is transmitted through a medium that itself becomes an active cause, not merely a passive conduit subject to termination.
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    • 2.Aristotle's account of projectile motion assigns causal power to successive portions of air, meaning resistance encounters a distributed cause, not a singular mover's influence.
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    • 3.If the medium sustains motion independently, external resistance terminates the medium's causation, leaving the original mover's influence conceptually intact and unaffected.
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    • 1.Ibn Sina's impetus doctrine holds that a mover implants an inner quality (mayl) in the movable body, which becomes an intrinsic property of that body.
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    • 2.Properties intrinsic to a body can only be terminated by processes internal to that body, such as natural exhaustion, not by external resistive forces acting on it.
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    • 3.Therefore, external resistance can impede or counteract motion without terminating the mover's implanted influence, which dissipates on its own terms.
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    • 1.A mover ceases to act either on its own or because something else exerts resistance on it
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    • 2.When resistance from an external source is sufficient, the mover's influence on the movable ends
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