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That is perverse! In Newtonian mechanics an inertial frame is
operationally defined as one in which the law of inertia holds;
it is as simple as that. In a rotating frame one can certainly
find an "agent" which accounts for accelerations observed (the
rotation is such an "agent"), but few would claim that the
rotating frame is an inertial frame.
Leigh