Cassirer and neo-Kantians argue that structural or relational knowledge (as in mathematical physics) counts as knowledge of reality, not merely of appearances, undermining the claim's absolutism.

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Absolutism (in this context)(as the position being challenged): The philosophical claim that there is only one ultimate, unchanging truth about reality that exists independent of how we think about it.
Cassirer: # Cassirer Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher (1874-1945) who argued that humans understand the world through "symbolic forms"—shared systems of meaning like language, myth, art, and science rather than through direct perception alone. He believed that what makes us distinctly human is our ability to create and use these symbols to make sense of reality, and that different cultures and disciplines each have their own valid ways of symbolizing the world. His ideas were influential in philosophy and influenced how we think about language, culture, and human knowledge today.
Knowledge of reality vs. knowledge of appearances(as the central contrast in the statement): The debate over whether we can know things as they truly are in themselves, or only how they seem to us through our senses and mind.
Mathematical physics(as an example of structural knowledge)

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