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    Without a world structure, the concept of relative motion of several bodies has no more foundation than the concept of absolute motion of a single body.

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    • 1.The postulate of general relativity demonstrates that relative motion presupposes a structural foundation.
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    • 2.Absolute motion of a single body is recognized as lacking foundation without a reference structure.
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    • 1.Mach's relational mechanics derives meaningful relative motion from mass distributions alone, without invoking any additional 'world structure'.
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    • 2.If Machian relationalism successfully grounds relative motion in matter-matter relations, Weyl's structural realism introduces an unnecessary ontological posit.
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    • 3.The parsimony principle favors Mach's ontology: relative motion between bodies is foundational, not derivative of a prior structural framework.
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    • 1.Leibniz's relational theory of space grounds all motion in the relative positions and changes among actual bodies without positing a substantival or structural backdrop.
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    • 2.Weyl's claim presupposes that 'world structure' and 'relational configuration of bodies' are distinct, but a strict relationist identifies them, dissolving Weyl's contrast.
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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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