Skip to content
Carmelics
TopicsThinkersChangesContributorsLoading account…

    Carmelics

    A reasoning platform. Break down any belief into clear reasons, explore both sides, and weigh the evidence honestly.

    Navigate

    • Topics
    • Search
    • Recent Changes
    • Contribute
    • How It Works
    • Glossary
    • Thinkers
    • Contributors
    • About
    • Statistics
    • Terms
    • Privacy

    Database

    Statements
    —
    Perspectives
    —
    Topics
    —

    Press ? for keyboard shortcuts

    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
    Made withinDC&Austin
    Statements
    321,452
    Perspectives
    108,905
    Topics
    42
    If a principle is necessarily presupposed by any possible... — Carmelics
    Home
    HistoryEditSee Inverse

    Part of a larger discussion

    Challenges→Constitutive principles are not synthetic apriori principles.

    If a principle is necessarily presupposed by any possible experience, it cannot be merely conventional in Schlick's deflationary sense.

    ?Rate how convincing each reason is below to see the overall strength.
    1 reason for
    1 reason against

    Reasons For

    1 perspective
    Reason for
    ?
    • 1.Necessary presuppositions of experience have constitutive rather than merely stipulative force.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Schlick's conventionalism treats principles as interchangeable linguistic choices without cognitive cost.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.If a principle structures all possible experience, rejecting it makes experience itself unintelligible.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Reasons Against

    1 perspective
    Reason against
    ?
    • 1.Necessity for experience need not entail metaphysical necessity—it may reflect only human cognitive architecture.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 2.Schlick's deflationism denies truth-conditions to conventions, but this doesn't require them to be eliminable from practice.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    • 3.A principle can be indispensable functionally while remaining conventional in origin or justification.
      ?

      Think about whether this reason is strong or weak

    Sign in or register to share your perspective on this statement.

    Next step

    Based on where you are in your exploration

    Strongest counterpoint
    Explore the most compelling reason on the other side.

    Connections

    2 topics

    Truth & Knowledge1 linkedPhilosophy of Language1 linked

    Related

    A principle can be indispensable functionally while remaining conventional in or...Constitutive principles are not synthetic apriori principles.If a principle structures all possible experience, rejecting it makes experience...Necessary presuppositions of experience have constitutive rather than merely sti...
    +3 moreShow less
    Necessity for experience need not entail metaphysical necessity—it may reflect o...Schlick's conventionalism treats principles as interchangeable linguistic choice...Schlick's deflationism denies truth-conditions to conventions, but this doesn't ...

    Details

    Type
    claim
    Perspectives
    2 (1 for, 1 against)
    Edits
    1 edit