Argument From Motion

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Glossary

-# Aristotelian Definition Of Motion

Motion (motus): Not just change of location, but any change from potentiality to actuality.

Actuality and Potentiality: Something can only move from potential to actual by something already actual.

Mover: That which brings about motion/the actualizer of a potential.

-# Syllogism

P1: Motion exists

P2: Whatever is moved (i.e., goes from potentiality to actuality) is moved by something already actual, or non actual

P3: Something non actual does not have the ability to actualize potential.

C: Everything is moved by something already actual

P4: An infinite regress of movers (things causing motion) is impossible because it would prevent the existence of any actual motion.

C: Therefore, there must be a First Mover, itself unmoved (unactualized), which initiates all motion, and this we call God.