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    The presuppositions of Relativity are not Kantian apriori principles but conventions in Poincaré's sense.

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    • 1.The presuppositions of Relativity are alien to classical physics.
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    • 2.Kantian apriori principles are self-evident, eternal verities.
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    • 3.Principles alien to classical physics cannot be self-evident, eternal verities.
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    • 1.Neo-Kantians like Cassirer and Reichenbach argued that a priori principles can be relativized and constitutive without being eternal or unrevisable.
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    • 2.The presuppositions of Relativity (e.g., the metric of spacetime) still function as constitutive conditions of possible experience, satisfying a weakened Kantian a priori role.
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    • 3.Poincaré's conventionalism cannot explain why certain geometric frameworks are empirically indispensable, which a relativized a priori account handles more adequately.
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    • 1.Conventions in Poincaré's sense are freely chosen for convenience and carry no epistemic necessity, yet Einstein's simultaneity convention is constrained by the invariance of light speed.
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    • 2.A principle constrained by empirical facts and theoretical coherence cannot be a pure convention in Poincaré's sense, since genuine conventions are empirically unconstrained definitional choices.
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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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