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    It is not the case that The train becomes wreckage in a collision and not the church tower because the train is ripped out of the pathway of the guiding field, while the church tower is not.

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    • 1.The 'guiding field' is a theoretical posit, and explaining physical damage via field-deviation presupposes the very causal asymmetry it purports to explain.
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    • 2.Mach's principle holds that inertial structure is constituted by the distribution of matter, making the field-based account circular rather than foundational.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Causal asymmetry in collision outcomes is fully explicable by mass differentials and structural rigidity without appeal to a guiding field.
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    • 2.Invoking a guiding field as the locus of causal responsibility commits the explanatory error Russell identified: projecting folk-causal categories onto physics.
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    • 1.In a collision, both the train and the church tower receive a jolt relative to each other.
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    • 2.The guiding field provides a physical distinction between the two objects' states of motion.
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    • 3.The train is ripped out of the guiding field's pathway; the church tower remains in it.
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