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    A principle that relies on an incoherent conception shoul... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Einstein's attempt to incorporate Mach's Principle (version 2) into general relativity and relativistic cosmology is misguided

    A principle that relies on an incoherent conception should not be incorporated into a physical theory

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    Weyl was very critical of Einstein’s attempt to incorporate version (2) of Mach’s Principle into the theory of general relativity and relativistic cosmology because he considered the Leibnizian-Machian relational conception of motion—according to which all motion is to be interpreted as the motion of some bodies in relation to other bodies—to be an incoherent notion within the context of the general theory of relativity.

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