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Impetus is an actuality actualizing a potency. If the planets did not have the ability or potential at each point to be moved by that impetus, then they wouldn’t move, because it would be the case that they couldn’t move. To have such an ability, to move or be moved is a prrequisite of movement, but that is to have teleology. The mechanistic view is inadequate because it’s incoherent and incomplete without teleology.
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