I wasn't trying to be slippery, but am trying to work out in my mind what I think about this, and what it means for the notion of force to be fundamental beyond a faint nagging feeling at the back of my mind which makes me not too happy with immediately identifying generalized forces with Newtonian forces.
And I'm fairly sure that Newton's third law (each force having an equal and opposite reaction) is closely tied to conservation of momentum.
But, since I'm kind of floundering about in my own mind, I should clam up now ans wait until you write the blog article, and then at least I'll know if I still think 'sure - but'.
