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2) I think we all agree that in many situations when dealing
with a force, we need the idea of direction-and-magnitude of
the force and also the idea of point-of-application .....
The question is simply whether we want to express those two
things using one "vector" (i.e. a so-called bound vector)
or using two vectors (i.e. plain old vectors, aka free
vectors).
My reading of the math and physics literature going back 50+
years is that vector means free vector exclusively, so that
a so-called "bound vector" is not really a vector at all, but
rather a pair of vectors, like two persons inside a horse
costume.
I'm sure Banesh Hoffmann didn't write about bound vectors on
a whim.