Read my other posts in this thread. But that said: (a) yes empiricists find germ

Read my other posts in this thread.
But that said:
(a) yes empiricists find german phenomenalism as ‘provincial’, by attempting to maintain the sentimentality of the argument. Whereas the english are naval, legal and merchant peoples and germans are martial, clerical, and farmers. So, we all work in the frame that is common among our peoples. It’s one thing to make moral and sentimental arguments when everyone is like you and another when you must make legal and economic arguments when you trade with different peoples. This pattern is the same whether england vs germany or athens vs sparta.
(b) the anglosphere interprets phenomenalism, which is a variation of what today we call psychologizing, as an attempt at deception by suggestion and manipulation. This isn’t true since germans are profoundly honest negotiators – possibly the most so in the world. But when reading the older philosophical works that’s how anglos interpret it.
(c) So think ‘city vs rural’. Same thing.

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