rational thinking

 cannot 'coerce' someone to start out from a new position (pace heidegger who warned against 'adjusting to the diversity of positions found among 'philosophizing people').

The final exchange in the debate demonstratedthat Cassirer was prepared to accept the irreconcilable differences while Heidegger pushed for a decisive victory. 'I do not want to try to make Heidegger abandon his position,' Cassirer explained,warningagainstthinkingthat rational argument can 'coerce' someone to start out from a new position. His perception of a multitude of world-views and symbolic forms-of 'Being, which proceeds from manifold functional determinations and meanings' made him more inclined to accept dissenting opinions. Heidegger, determined to get to the one 'idea of Being 'behind the 'manifold modes of Being,' could not afford to be so ecumenical. He warned against adjusting to the diversity of positions found among 'philosophizing people.' 'The one thing' he wanted the audience to take away from the debate was a readiness to turn to 'the central question of metaphysics' the

 cannot 'coerce' someone to start out from a new position.

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rational thinking