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What does self-motion mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word self-motion? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Motion given by inherent powers, without external impulse.
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Clarke steadfastly maintained that matter has neither an essential nor an accidental power of self-motion.
Aristotle impugns, as alike untenable, both the two properties here alleged number and self-motion.
For most people, this ability to see self-motion in darkness probably is learned, the authors conclude.
Participants were given ineffective pills, before being sat on a stool inside a drum with vertical stripes that induced the illusion of self-motion.
Everyone is familiar with the impression of self-motion experienced when watching a moving train through the windows of a stationary train.
Immediately after the cessation of motion stimulation, the observer reports self-motion in the same direction as the previous section.

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