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    It is not the case that The belief that all movements cease by virtue of their own nature is in complete contradiction to the laws of nature.

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    • 1.Aristotelian physics holds that rest is the natural terminus of terrestrial motion, not its opposite but its proper end or telos.
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    • 2.If rest is the natural end-state of sublunary bodies, then motion ceasing is motion fulfilling its nature, not contradicting it.
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    • 3.Descartes' argument presupposes a symmetry between rest and motion that Aristotle explicitly denies by treating rest as actuality and motion as privation.
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    • 1.The principle that nothing moves toward its own destruction applies to substances, but motion is a mode, not a substance with self-preservation.
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    • 2.Spinoza and scholastic hylomorphists distinguish between modes and substances such that modes can naturally dissolve without violating nature's laws.
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    • 1.Rest is the opposite of movement.
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    • 2.Nothing moves by virtue of its own nature towards its opposite or its own destruction.
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    • 3.For motion to cease on its own would require motion to move toward its opposite (rest) by its own nature.
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