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    It is not the case that The inertial structure of the world must be acknowledged as 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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    • 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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