So likewise as to motion;
and
are altogether relative to the succession of ideas in our own
minds. But, it doth not follow, because those modifications of
motion exist not without the mind, that therefore absolute motion
abstracted from them doth not.
. Pray what is it that distinguishes one motion, or
one part of extension, from another? Is it not something
sensible, as some degree of swiftness or slowness, some certain
magnitude or figure peculiar to each?
. I think so.
. These qualities, therefore, stripped of all sensible
properties, are without all specific and numerical differences,
as the schools call them.
. They are.
. That is to say, they are extension in general, and
motion in general.
. Let it be so.
. But it is a universally received maxim that
. How then can motion in
general, or extension in general, exist in any corporeal
substance? {193}
. I will take time to solve your difficulty.
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