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Full Idea
What has pushed something else makes the latter push as well.
Gist of Idea
If something is pushed, it pushes back
Source
Aristotle (De Anima [c.329 BCE], 435b30)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'De Anima (on the psuche)', ed/tr. Reeve, C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.64
A Reaction
Aristotle seems to have spotted that this is intrinsic to massive bodies, and is not just friction etc. Newton adds a vector to Aristotle's insight.
Related Idea
Idea 17019 3: All actions of bodies have an equal and opposite reaction [Newton]
| 24064 | If something is pushed, it pushes back [Aristotle] |
| 19673 | Galileo mathematised movement, and revealed its invariable component - acceleration [Galileo, by Meillassoux] |
| 20964 | Descartes said there was conservation of 'quantity of motion' [Descartes, by Papineau] |
| 20968 | Newton's Third Law implies the conservation of momentum [Newton, by Papineau] |
| 15958 | Inertia rejects the Aristotelian idea of things having natural states, to which they return [Newton, by Alexander,P] |
| 17017 | 1: Bodies rest, or move in straight lines, unless acted on by forces [Newton] |
| 17019 | 3: All actions of bodies have an equal and opposite reaction [Newton] |
| 17018 | 2: Change of motion is proportional to the force [Newton] |
| 22173 | Galileo refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier objects fall faster [Okasha] |
| 22618 | In modern physics the first and second laws of motion (unlike the third) fail at extremes [Ingthorsson] |