Assertion: body's motion | /r/HasProperty | contrary
Facets:
value: to its own nature
type: OTHER
value: to the nature of an entity
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Note, however, that even if we endorsed the exhaustiveness of the dichotomy of natural and forced motions, and accepted the thesis that simple bodies possess a unique natural motion (De caelo 1.2, 269a8–9), we would not need thereby to accept Aristotle’s further major claim, that natural and forced motions come in pairs of opposites, with the result that if a motion is contrary to the nature of an entity, the opposite motion will be its natural motion (De caelo 1.2, 269a9–18).
text: Although this allows for several different motions that are contrary to the nature of the same entity, the natural motion will still have a single opposite motion, the one which is directed to the opposite location.
text: A mover can effect a motion which is contrary to its own nature.