A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.

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Ernst Mach

Always Appears Different Domain Enough Execute Executed Image More Movement Never Place Takes Than Vivid Which Will

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