The phrase "absolute place" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing geography, philosophy, or theoretical frameworks where a specific, unchanging location is referenced.
Example: "In the context of navigation, an absolute place refers to a fixed point on the Earth's surface, defined by coordinates."
Alternatives: "fixed location" or "specific position".
On one reading, it means, as a matter of stipulative definition, 'change of absolute place'.
What is incumbent is for him to argue that true motion just is change of absolute place.
Absolute motion is the translation of a body from one absolute place into another; and relative motion, the translation from one relative place into another.
Newton construes the true motion of an object, as opposed to its merely "apparent" motion, not in terms of its change in relations to other objects, as Descartes had done in his Principles, but in terms of its change of absolute place (Janiak 2008, chapter five).
These are therefore the absolute places; and translations out of those places, are the only absolute motions.
Newton's arguments concerning motion, however, are designed to show, not that true motion is distinct from merely relative motion (which is granted by all), but rather that the only feasible analysis of true motion requires reference to absolute places, and thus the existence of absolute space.
And so, instead of absolute places and motions, we use relative ones; and that without any inconvenience in common affairs; but in philosophical disquisitions, we ought to abstract from our senses, and consider things themselves, distinct from what are only sensible measures of them.
Instead of encoding a position in absolute space, the place cell seems to be keeping track of the rat's relative distance along the (virtual) track.
For he immediately goes on to say that "this sufficient reason is oft-times no other, than the mere will of God," citing as an example God's volition to create this system of matter in one particular place within absolute space, rather than in some other place in absolute space.
Absolute motion is defined as change from one place in absolute space to another.
There is simply nothing to recommend one particular place in absolute space over another.
