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    It is not the case that Without an internal active principle distinct from passive nature, attributing self-motion to falling bodies conflates accidental and essential causation.

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    • 1.Modern physics explains falling bodies through gravitational fields and mass without invoking irreducible internal active principles or essences.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'active' and 'passive' principles may be a conceptual artifact rather than a real metaphysical division in nature.
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    • 3.Attributing self-motion to falling bodies accurately describes empirical behavior; invoking hidden principles adds no predictive or explanatory power.
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    • 1.Passive matter alone cannot explain directional, ordered motion; some internal organizing principle must distinguish self-motion from mere displacement.
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    • 2.Confusing accidental properties (contingent circumstances) with essential natures (what something fundamentally is) leads to incoherent physics.
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    • 3.A falling body's motion requires explanation of *why* it moves downward specifically, not just *that* it moves—necessitating an active principle.
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