[The Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ethics PREFACE 29/106
i.) in motion or at rest.
And this body again can only have been set in motion or caused to rest by being determined by a third body to motion or rest.
This third body again by a fourth, and so on to infinity.
Q.E.D. Corollary .-- Hence it follows, that a body in motion keeps in motion, until it is determined to a state of rest by some other body; and a body at rest remains so, until it is determined to a state of motion by some other body.
This is indeed self--evident. For when I suppose, for instance, that a given body, A, is at rest, and do not take into consideration other bodies in motion, I cannot affirm anything concerning the body A, except that it is at rest.
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