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    Challenges→A minimal and partless body could never be in motion

    The argument conflates the absence of spatial parts with the impossibility of relational change, but a partless entity can still stand in different spatial relations at different times.

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    Conflate(the criticism being made in the statement)
    To mistakenly treat two different things as if they were the same thing.
    partless entity(Buddhist atomism critique)
    An entity whose near side is identical to its far side, such that being adjacent to it is equivalent to having passed it by.
    relational change(as used in metaphysics)
    A genuine change in how something actually relates to or connects with other things, as opposed to just a change in how we describe it.
    spatial parts(as used in metaphysics)
    Distinct pieces or sections of something that occupy different locations in space.
    stand in a relation(as used in metaphysics and logic)

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