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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.

    If inertia is the only explanation for persistence, then dead matter sustains itself, which contradicts the occasionalist implication that God must continuously conserve all states.

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    Dead matter(as used in metaphysics)
    Non-living physical stuff—like rocks, metals, or dirt—as opposed to living things like plants or animals.
    Divine conservation(metaphysics and theology)
    The theological idea that God actively maintains and sustains the existence of the universe at every moment, rather than creating it once and letting it run on its own.
    Implication(as what the arrow symbol (→) represents)
    A logical connection between two statements where if the first is true, the second must also be true; written as 'p → q' meaning 'if p then q.'
    inertia(Classical mechanics as understood since Galileo and Newton)
    The tendency of a body to persist in its state of motion; the guiding principle that gives a body its natural inertial motion along a straight line at uniform speed.

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    occasionalism(Malebranche's metaphysics)
    The doctrine that bodies cannot directly cause modifications in minds (or in each other); instead, a causal relation between body and mind obtains only when God intends the mind to undergo a certain modification on the occasion of a certain bodily change.
    persistence(Weyl's distinction between two kinds of constancy)
    Constancy maintained because a quantity is isolated and undisturbed, as opposed to actively adjusted

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