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> Change can happen as inertial motion […] That is one type of change; from Five Proofs (2017), Edward Feser, Chapter 1: The Aristotelean Proof (p. 17): > The
by throw0101b 3y ago
> Change can happen as inertial motion […]
That is one type of change; from Five Proofs (2017), Edward Feser, Chapter 1: The Aristotelean Proof (p. 17):
> These examples illustrate four kinds of change: qualitative change (the coffee cools down); change with respect to location (the leaf falls from the tree); quantitative change (the puddle increases in size): and substantial change (a living things gives way to dead matter). That changes of these sorts occur is evident from our sensory experience of the world outside our minds.
> […], interaction isn't necessary for it, […]
Newton would disagree.
- GoblinSlayer 3y agoAccording to Newton's first law inertial motion happens without interaction. What moves the inertially moving object? In Aristotelian mechanics inertial motion stops shortly after beginning, so for sustained motion the object must be moved by another. Falling leaf is not inertial motion, it's pulled by gravity, Aristotle didn't know about gravity, but Aquinas probably did as round Earth theory required the concept of gravity.