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    Cassirer's argument rests on a false dichotomy. — Carmelics
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    Cassirer's argument rests on a false dichotomy.

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    • 1.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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    • 2.Schlick's Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre demonstrates that constitutive principles can be grounded in empirical coordination (Zuordnung) without invoking idealist epistemology.
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    • 3.A dichotomy between idealism and raw sensualism is therefore not exhaustive, since coordinated empiricism occupies genuine logical space between them.
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    • 1.Poincaré's conventionalism and Helmholtz's empirical geometry each supply frameworks where structural principles organize experience without reducing to either idealism or naive phenomenalism.
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    • 2.Cassirer's argument in Substanzbegriff und Funktionsbegriff ignores these intermediate positions, which were well-established in the scientific epistemology literature he engaged with.
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    • 3.A dichotomy that omits historically prominent, philosophically articulated middle positions cannot be considered logically exhaustive and is therefore a false dichotomy.
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    • 1.Cassirer's Logical Idealism incorporates constitutive principles for ordering and measuring sensations to constitute physical objects.
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    • 2.The only alternative Cassirer considered is a phenomenalistic empiricism founded on the sensualistic concept of experience.
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    • 3.Schlick's own philosophical framework is an empiricist epistemology that includes constitutive principles, serving as a counterexample to Cassirer's dichotomy.
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    Schlick also contributed a critical essay on Ernst Cassirer’s 1921 work on Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to the prestigious journal Kant-Studien (Cassirer 1921; Schlick 1979a, 322–334). In “Critical or Empiricist Interpretation of Modern Physics?” of 1921, Schlick explained that Cassirer’s argument rested on a false dichotomy. On the one hand, Cassirer’s own Logical Idealism incorporates principles for the ordering and measuring of sensations to constitute physical objects. On the other hand,
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