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    It is not the case that The presuppositions of Relativity are not Kantian apriori principles but conventions in Poincaré's sense.

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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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    • 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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