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    It is not the case that Constitutive principles are not synthetic apriori principles.

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    • 1.Kant's synthetic apriori judgments include constitutive frameworks like causality that structure experience before empirical confirmation.
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    • 2.Constitutive principles like 'every event has a cause' are not arbitrary conventions but necessary preconditions for coherent experience.
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    • 3.If a principle is necessarily presupposed by any possible experience, it cannot be merely conventional in Schlick's deflationary sense.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Reichenbach's coordinative definitions, though conventional in form, carry synthetic content by determining which physical geometry applies to spacetime.
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    • 2.A principle that fixes the empirical meaning of theoretical terms does synthetic work even if its adoption involves choice among alternatives.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Constitutive principles are conventions.
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    • 2.Conventions are neither apriori nor synthetic.
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