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Ideas for Heraclitus, Stilpo and Bertrand Russell

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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
All things are in a state of motion [Heraclitus, by Aristotle]
Occupying a place and change are prior to motion, so motion is just occupying places at continuous times [Russell]
Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
Force is supposed to cause acceleration, but acceleration is a mathematical fiction [Russell]