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We want in this note to clarify some aspects of the Machian foundation of the concept of mass in classical mechanics; specifically, we show how the relations of transitivity for the mass-ratios, necessary for a well grounded definition of mass, can be derived from Machian postulates.
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Guerra, M., Sparzani, A. About the definition of mass in (Machian) classical mechanics. Found Phys Lett 7, 75–84 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02056554
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