Assertion: newton's view | /r/CapableOf | present motion
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text: In his Principles of Philosophy of 1644, Descartes had distinguished between the “ordinary” and the “proper” view of motion: whereas the ordinary view presents motion as a body's change of place, the philosopher knows that properly speaking, motion is a body's change of relations to the bodies that surround it (recall Descartes's plenum).