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

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    • 1.Necessity for experience need not entail metaphysical necessity—it may reflect only human cognitive architecture.
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    • 2.Schlick's deflationism denies truth-conditions to conventions, but this doesn't require them to be eliminable from practice.
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    • 3.A principle can be indispensable functionally while remaining conventional in origin or justification.
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    • 1.Necessary presuppositions of experience have constitutive rather than merely stipulative force.
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    • 2.Schlick's conventionalism treats principles as interchangeable linguistic choices without cognitive cost.
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    • 3.If a principle structures all possible experience, rejecting it makes experience itself unintelligible.
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