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    It is not the case that The inertial structure of the world is the cause of the dynamical inequivalence of 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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    • 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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