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    The mover's influence ends due to one of four distinct causes

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    • 1.The mover may cease to act due to the destruction of the mover itself
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    • 2.The mover may cease to act due to exhaustion of the mover's power
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    • 3.The mover may cease to act due to the disappearance of the cause that initiated the motion
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    • 1.Aristotle's Physics VI demonstrates that motion is continuous and divisible, meaning 'completion' is not a discrete terminus but a limit approached asymptotically.
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    • 2.If completion is a limit rather than an achieved state, the fourth cause collapses into a fifth: the mover's influence ends due to mathematical convergence, not intentional finality.
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    • 3.Ibn Bajja's taxonomy therefore conflates teleological and kinematic descriptions, producing an illicit mixture of physics and metaphysics under a single causal category.
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    • 1.Avicenna's theory of mail (inclination) holds that a projectile acquires an internal motive force from its original mover, allowing continued motion after contact ceases.
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    • 2.If the moved body carries forward an impressed force, then the mover's causal influence does not strictly end but is transmitted into the body as a persistent internal cause.
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    • 3.This renders Ibn Bajja's four causes incomplete, since they classify only external cessation conditions while ignoring the internalization of motive power described in the impetus tradition.
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    It is evident that the rest of the whole caused by the rest of one of its parts takes place in so far as the movable is other than the mover, and when the influence (athar) of the latter ends, it comes to rest. Its influence ends because the mover ceases to act either on its own or because something else exerts resistance on it. Whenever the mover ceases to act on its own, this happens due either to its destruction, or to exhaustion (kalal) of the power of the mover, or because the cause disappe
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