… This article develops a Machian form of comparativism about mass in Newtonian gravity, …
the sum over all masses. Although this form of comparativism is indeed empirically equivalent …

… As far as I am aware all of the comparativism literature assumes the existence of mass ratios,
… In Chapter 6 I will make plausible that this is what Mach had in mind when he attempted to …

… The mass relations hold in virtue of these intrinsic masses. (Weak) Comparativism The most
… vis-à-vis their mass just concern how they are related in mass. All other facts about their …

… (We will follow Mach in this paper by assuming that the relevant mass relationships Footnote
7 are … comparativism from kinematic comparativism goes as follows: if we can only express …

… Before evaluating Mach’s definition qua reductionist project, it is worthwhile … him a comparativist
about mass (as opposed to an absolutist). Absolutism about mass is the view that mass …

… definition for the mass scale, once the mass ratios have been … core of the Machian project,
not comparativism or absolutism … for the absolute mass scale over and above the mass ratios. …

… On the one hand, we naturally think that something with mass has a determinate intrinsic …
But we also think that things with mass stand in various determinate mass relationships with …

… Bad reasons for comparativism Numerical value used to represent absolute masses … , we
only have empirical access to the mass times Newton Constant → wiggle room → Motivation to …

… if there are absolute positions and masses. In this paper, I argue that if comparativism is true,
there is a … We can think of r(i, j) as the mass ratio between i and j, but since the comparativist …

… -realism about absolute masses. While this is indeed very much in the spirit of comparativism,
we … A related, ‘Machian’ approach – with the same aim of rendering mass scalings as a sym…