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    The principle 'no motion without a mover' applies to Aris... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A first unmoved mover exists

    The principle 'no motion without a mover' applies to Aristotelian substances but Newton's first law shows bodies persist in motion without any continuing external cause.

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    • 1.Aristotle's 'mover' principle applied only to sublunary change within a teleological cosmos, not to eternal celestial motions or inertial states.
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    • 2.Newton's law describes persistence, not origination of motion—it doesn't explain why bodies have momentum initially, only why it continues.
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    • 3.Inertia itself can be understood as an intrinsic property or 'mover' in the body, preserving Aristotelian logic in modern form.
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    • 1.If 'mover' means anything causing change from rest or velocity, inertia is precisely the thing that moves bodies without external cause.
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    • 2.Aristotle's principle required continuous external agency; inertia contradicts this directly by making external force unnecessary for motion maintenance.
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    • 3.Redefining 'mover' as 'intrinsic property' abandons the original principle's content rather than reconciling it with Newtonian physics.
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