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    Cassirer's neo-Kantian framework assumes constitutive pri... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Cassirer's argument rests on a false dichotomy.

    Cassirer's neo-Kantian framework assumes constitutive principles must be idealist in character, rooted in the Marburg school's rejection of mind-independent structure.

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    • 1.Marburg school explicitly rejected thing-in-itself as epistemically inaccessible, making all knowledge constitutively dependent on rational conditions.
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    • 2.Cassirer's symbolic forms doctrine treats all object-constitution as mediated through subject's representational systems, not independent reality.
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    • 3.Neo-Kantian constitutivism requires that principles generating objectivity originate in consciousness, excluding realist ontological ground.
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    • 1.Cassirer's later work on symbolic forms allows nature to constrain and resist interpretation, suggesting realist elements beyond pure idealism.
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    • 2.Marburg school distinguished between psychological idealism and transcendental idealism; the latter permits structured reality independent of minds.
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    • 3.Constitutive principles can organize mind-independent structures without creating them, as logical conditions rather than ontological generators.
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