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    If the medium sustains motion independently, external res... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→External resistance can terminate a mover's influence on a movable body

    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.Causal powers are intrinsic properties of agents; external obstacles cannot retroactively erase an agent's original efficacy.
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    • 2.A mover's influence is metaphysically distinct from a medium's motion; resistance affects only the latter's continuation.
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    • 3.Blocking an effect doesn't negate the cause's operation—a dam stops water flow but doesn't undo the spring's generative power.
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    • 1.Causation requires actual causal chains; if resistance severs the connection, the original mover's influence becomes merely potential, not real.
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    • 2.A mover's influence is only 'intact' if it continues producing effects; termination of effects indicates termination of active causation.
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    • 3.Distinguishing 'influence' from 'motion-effects' artificially separates what are in fact unified causal processes in physical systems.
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