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    It is not the case that The first mover must be a mind.

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    • 1.The exhaustive dualism of bodies and minds is not a necessary truth but a contingent metaphysical assumption requiring independent justification.
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    • 2.Spinoza's substance monism and Leibniz's monadology demonstrate historically viable alternatives that admit neither Cartesian body nor Cartesian mind as ultimate categories.
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    • 3.If the dichotomy of bodies and minds is not exhaustive, the elimination of body as first mover does not entail mind is the only remaining candidate.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Causation may be a structural or dispositional feature of reality rather than an act requiring a mental agent, as argued in Aristotelian immanent teleology and neo-Aristotelian powers ontology.
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    • 2.If causal power can be grounded in non-mental natures or forms, the inference from 'not a body' to 'must be a mind' commits a false dilemma by presupposing mentality is necessary for agency.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.There are only two kinds of substances: bodies and minds (Cordemoy's third axiom).
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    • 2.The first mover is not a body.
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    • 3.Therefore only a mind remains as a candidate for the first mover.
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