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    Challenges→The Leibnizian-Machian relational conception of motion is incoherent within the context of general relativity

    General relativity provides a framework in which this strictly relational interpretation of motion cannot be coherently maintained

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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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