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Locality in MTW

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On page 4 of Gravitation by MTW I read,

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Don't try to describe motion relative to faraway objects. Physics is simple only when analyzed locally.

Here seems to be a mistake. Although motion, or more generally, causality is local, there exists other physics, which is non-local. This 'jump' from motion to physics seems wrong. 

Was such a 'jump' Einstein's mistake?

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