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    The precepts Reichenbach called 'synthetic apriori' are w... — Carmelics
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    The precepts Reichenbach called 'synthetic apriori' are what Schlick identified as 'conventions', and the differences are at most terminological.

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    • 1.The principles Reichenbach identified as synthetic apriori constitute an observation or measurement of an experience.
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    • 2.Schlick was unable to discover any characteristics of these alleged synthetic apriori principles that genuinely distinguish them from conventions.
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    • 1.Reichenbach's synthetic apriori principles carry constitutive epistemic necessity, making experience possible, not merely organizing it efficiently.
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    • 2.Schlick's conventions are chosen by pragmatic criteria of simplicity and convenience, lacking the transcendental constitutive function Reichenbach assigns to coordinative principles.
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    • 3.A principle that makes empirical knowledge possible cannot be equivalent to one that merely streamlines its expression, since their modal statuses differ fundamentally.
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    • 1.Reichenbach explicitly distinguished his relativized apriori from conventions in 'Relativitätstheorie und Erkenntnis Apriori' by insisting coordinative definitions are revisable but not arbitrary.
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    • 2.Conventions in Poincaré's and Schlick's sense are underdetermined by any empirical fact, whereas Reichenbach's principles are constrained by the physical theory they constitute, making them partially answerable to experience.
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    However, before arriving in Vienna, Schlick engaged the neo-Kantians, Hans Reichenbach and Ernst Cassirer, who had published their own philosophical understandings of the new physics of Relativity. In his Relativity Theory and Apriori Knowledge of 1920, Reichenbach had argued for a modified conception of Kant’s synthetic apriori, which challenged Schlick’s thought in a decisive way (Reichenbach 1920). At Einstein’s request, Schlick wrote to Reichenbach in the Fall of 1920, hoping to air the di
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