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    It is not the case that Self-motion occurs in physical cases, not only in psychology

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    • 1.Aristotle's Physics distinguishes self-movers from things moved by their nature: heavy objects fall by external actualizing conditions, not internal agency.
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    • 2.The form 'heaviness' in a falling body is a passive potency actualized by removal of an obstacle, not an active principle initiating motion.
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    • 3.Without an internal active principle distinct from passive nature, attributing self-motion to falling bodies conflates accidental and essential causation.
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    • 1.Aquinas explicitly denies that natural motion in inanimate bodies is self-motion, reserving that category for living things with intrinsic motive principles.
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    • 2.If heaviness alone suffices for self-motion, then every object at rest on a surface is perpetually self-moving, which produces an absurd proliferation of agency.
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    • 1.A falling object actively moves towards its goal
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    • 2.The motion of a falling object is caused by the object itself because the object is heavy
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    • 3.Any motion caused by the moving thing itself is an instance of self-motion
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