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Linusthe2nd
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Certainly all change and movement are from something to something else, not only in the sense of going from home to the grocery store, but in the senses of growing older, growing fatter, getting white haired, being born, dying, etc. And at every point in the process of change " something " exists. What exists are the things that are undergoing change.Is it at all reasonable to talk about “movement” with regards to existence? Our intuition about movement is built on things which move in a continuum. If we imagine someone walking from their home to the local library, they occupy lots of places in between their house and the library in succession. It is while they are in those successive intermediate states that we say that they are moving. However, existence is not a continuum, it is binary. You can’t half-exist; you either do or you don’t. There are no intermediate states to occupy in succession.
Now, perhaps you mean move in a different sense. Perhaps you are referring to movement as a “reason why.” Then I must ask the question “why would we use the word movement when we mean ‘reason why’?” I suspect it is partly for historical reasons and partly to make people bring intuition about “movement” into a discussion about “reasons why” where it may not apply.
There is a big difference between causes and movement/change. The father and mother are the causes of the son. The son is the result of the change that results between the seed and the egg. That is a huge difference.
Linus2nd