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work_dzv6oifzjbgijgztvz6tz2l2ny	James Owen Weatherall	The Geometry of Conventionality	2014	17	.pdf	application/pdf	7276	490	65	There is a venerable position in the philosophy of space and time that holds that the geometry of spacetime is conventional, provided one is willing to postulate a "universal force constructing a universal force field was meant to generalize to the spacetime context. be represented by a tensor field and which gives rise to forces on particles at each point of spacetime, and particle in (M,ηab) or (2) γ[I] is the worldline of a massive point particle in (M,g̃ab), accelerating due to the universal force field Gab = ηab − g̃ab. in relativity theory, the universal force field Reichenbach defines is unacceptable. This proposition means that one is free to choose any derivative operator one likes (compatible with the fixed classical metrics) and, by postulating a universal force field, one can which means that the force generated by the field Gab on a particle at some point is always	./cache/work_dzv6oifzjbgijgztvz6tz2l2ny.pdf	./txt/work_dzv6oifzjbgijgztvz6tz2l2ny.txt