> I wonder how they defined moving versus non-moving things? Their concept of "moving things" was what is often translated as "self-movers" in translations of

> I wonder how they defined moving versus non-moving things? Their concept of "moving things" was what is often translated as "self-movers" in translations of works like those of Aristotle. The idea was that they were things that could move without anything else controlling them. Cars and boats don't move unless humans are controlling them. But animals do.