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" Impetus, in philosophy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
McGinnis, Jon
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English
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1062269
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ALei2666
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McGinnis, Jon
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Impetus, in philosophy - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ McGinnis, Jon
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,033 words)
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“ Impetus ” or “inclination” (mayl) is a technical term in mediaeval Arabic natural philosophy . It primarily refers to the immediate cause of a body’s motion or change, such as a stone’s heaviness, which causes it to move downward if left unsupported. Mediaeval philosophers identified three sorts of impetus: one, natural impetus, like heaviness; two, forced or impressed impetus, like the force that a bow imparts to an arrow; and three, psychological impetus, as in one person’s inclination for another. By the middle period of mediaeval Islamic philosophy impetus
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Islam.
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