Dieter Henrich's influential reading demonstrates that §§17–20 require an independent premise about objective validity drawn from the Transcendental Analytic's table of categories.

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Dieter Henrich(The subject of the statement; his research is being discussed): A 20th-century German philosopher who specialized in studying how we become aware of ourselves and think about our own thoughts.
Table of categories(the specific part of the Transcendental Analytic being discussed): Kant's organized list of the fundamental concepts (like causality, unity, and existence) that our minds use to make sense of all our experiences.
Transcendental Analytic(Kant's critical philosophy): The portion of the Critique of Pure Reason aimed at showing that the categories of pure understanding and the principles of pure understanding are necessary conditions of any cognition of objects and of apperception, while also yielding knowledge only when applied to intuitions.
objective validity(Kant's epistemology; contrasted with merely subjective validity): The property of a representation whereby it represents an objective feature of reality — a feature whose existence and nature is independent of how it is perceived.

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