LessonsOrigination of Accidents and Substances: Premises, Objections and RepliesQuiz

Some philosophical objections distinguish motion in general from particular movements. If each particular movement starts, must the entire sequence of movements also have a starting point? That is the issue.

One reply argues that motion-as-a-universal is not an independently existing external entity alongside its instances. A conceptual generality must not be transformed without argument into a separate eternal object.

Still, the distinction between each member beginning and the series having a first member remains. The argument needs to address both rather than treating them as interchangeable.

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Absolute motion and individual motions

Origination of Accidents and Substances: Premises, Objections and Replies

Some philosophical objections distinguish motion in general from particular movements. If each particular movement starts, must the entire sequence of movements also have a starting point? That is the issue.

One reply argues that motion-as-a-universal is not an independently existing external entity alongside its instances. A conceptual generality must not be transformed without argument into a separate eternal object.

Still, the distinction between each member beginning and the series having a first member remains. The argument needs to address both rather than treating them as interchangeable.