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    The inertial structure of the world must be acknowledged ... — Carmelics
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    The inertial structure of the world must be acknowledged as a real physical thing.

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    • 1.The inertial structure exerts effects upon matter.
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    • 2.The inertial structure in turn suffers effects from matter.
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    • 3.Any entity that both exerts and suffers physical effects is a real physical thing.
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    • 1.Causal efficacy is a criterion for token events or particulars, not for abstract structural features like symmetry groups or metric fields.
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    • 2.Inertial structure, as a global constraint on possible motions, is better characterized as a law-like disposition than as a causally active physical entity.
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    • 3.Conflating nomological structure with physical substance commits a category error that reifies mathematical description into ontology.
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    • 1.Mach's relational critique holds that inertial effects are fully explicable by reference to the distribution and motion of actual matter, without positing a substantival inertial structure.
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    • 2.If all observable inertial phenomena can be nominalistically reconstructed from material relations, then positing inertial structure as a real thing violates Ockham's razor.
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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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