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    The inertial structure of the world is the cause of the dynamical inequivalence of motions.

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    • 1.Motions are dynamically inequivalent — some are inertial, others are not.
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    • 2.This inequivalence requires a real physical cause.
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    • 3.The inertial structure of the world is the feature that differentiates these motions.
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    • 1.Causal relations require temporal priority or productive necessity; structural features like inertial geometry are not causes but descriptive frameworks.
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    • 2.Weyl's claim conflates the mathematical representation of physical law with genuine ontological causation, a distinction Bertrand Russell urged in 'On the Notion of Cause' (1912).
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    • 3.The inertial structure supervenes on the distribution of matter-energy, so if anything causes dynamical inequivalence, it is matter, not geometry.
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    • 1.Mach's principle holds that inertial effects are determined by the global distribution of matter, making 'inertial structure' an abstraction from relational facts, not an independent causal agent.
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    • 2.Positing inertial structure as a cause reifies a theoretical construct into a substance, committing the explanatory error Leibniz identified against Newton's absolute space.
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    Incidentally, without a world structure the concept of relative motion of several bodies has, as the postulate of general relativity shows, no more foundation than the concept of absolute motion of a single body. Let us imagine the four-dimensional world as a mass of plasticine traversed by individual fibers, the world lines of the material particles. Except for the condition that no two world lines intersect, their pattern may be arbitrarily given. The plasticine can then be continuously
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