 An objection could be raised against the new interpretation, and indeed it had been raised by al-Ghazālī (d. 1111 CE) in his polemical writing The Incoherence of the Philosophers (Ghazālī [2002]). Potentiality has to precede motion, as potentiality precedes the act; Averroes agrees with the tenet but restricts it to the sublunary world, to innovated motions. The rule of temporal priority does not apply to “motion as motion, but to something innovated as innovated” (novo facto, LC 341IK).