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Single Idea 24045
[filed under theme 27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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Full Idea
There a four sorts of movement - spatial movement, alteration, withering and growth.
Gist of Idea
Movement is spatial, alteration, withering or growth
Source
Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 406a12)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'De Anima (on the psuche)', ed/tr. Reeve, C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.9
A Reaction
Large parts of Aristotle's writings attempt to explain these four.
The
32 ideas
with the same theme
[explaining why not all things are stationary]:
1713
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Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul
[Thales, by Aristotle]
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12269
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All things are in a state of motion
[Heraclitus, by Aristotle]
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5115
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It is feeble-minded to look for explanations of everything being at rest
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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455
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That which moves, moves neither in the place in which it is, nor in that in which it is not
[Zeno of Elea]
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3059
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There is no real motion, only the appearance of it
[Melissus, by Diog. Laertius]
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24044
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Movement can be intrinsic (like a ship) or relative (like its sailors)
[Aristotle]
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24045
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Movement is spatial, alteration, withering or growth
[Aristotle]
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1738
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Practical reason is based on desire, so desire must be the ultimate producer of movement
[Aristotle]
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1739
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If all movement is either pushing or pulling, there must be a still point in between where it all starts
[Aristotle]
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399
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If the more you raise some earth the faster it moves, why does the whole earth not move?
[Aristotle]
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20063
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Motion fulfils potentiality
[Aristotle]
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5114
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If movement can arise within an animal, why can't it also arise in the universe?
[Aristotle]
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5116
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When there is unnatural movement (e.g. fire going downwards) the cause is obvious
[Aristotle]
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3063
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Motion can't move where it is, and can't move where it isn't, so it can't exist
[Pyrrho, by Diog. Laertius]
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5696
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If there were no space there could be no movement, or even creation
[Lucretius]
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5706
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Atoms move themselves
[Lucretius]
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22747
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A man walking backwards on a forwards-moving ship is moving in a fixed place
[Sext.Empiricus]
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1899
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Does the original self-mover push itself from behind, or pull itself from in front?
[Sext.Empiricus]
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1900
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If time and place are infinitely divided, it becomes impossible for movement ever to begin
[Sext.Empiricus]
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1901
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If all atoms, times and places are the same, everything should move with equal velocity
[Sext.Empiricus]
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17234
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Motion is losing one place and acquiring another
[Hobbes]
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15866
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Newton reclassified vertical motion as violent, and unconstrained horizontal motion as natural
[Newton, by Harré]
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12484
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Motion is just change of distance between two things
[Locke]
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12985
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Maybe motion is definable as 'change of place'
[Leibniz]
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19348
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All that is real in motion is the force or power which produces change
[Leibniz]
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12696
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Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants
[Leibniz]
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4786
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Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants
[Russell, by Psillos]
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14168
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Occupying a place and change are prior to motion, so motion is just occupying places at continuous times
[Russell]
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15243
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We perceive motion, and not just successive occupations of different positions
[Harré/Madden]
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20365
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We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement
[Rescher]
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4224
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If motion is change of distance between objects, it involves no intrinsic change in the objects
[Lowe]
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14725
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Maybe motion is a dynamical quantity intrinsic to a thing at a particular time
[Sider]
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