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    It is not the case that Henry Allison and Paul Guyer both argue §17 establishes a conceptual reciprocity between unity of apperception and objective validity, making the sufficiency reading textually unavoidable.

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    • 1.Conceptual connection between apperception and validity doesn't entail sufficiency; necessary conditions can be conceptually linked without being sufficient.
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    • 2.§17 may establish apperception as necessary for objective validity without committing Kant to the sufficiency reading both scholars attribute to him.
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    • 3.Alternative Kant interpreters argue §17 admits multiple valid readings; declaring sufficiency 'textually unavoidable' overstates the text's determinacy.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental logic requires that representations be unified under apperception to have objective validity; these are conceptually inseparable.
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    • 2.§17's argument structure moves from apperception's necessity to validity's necessity, suggesting sufficiency rather than mere correlation.
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    • 3.Allison and Guyer's textual analysis of §17's language demonstrates Kant explicitly establishes unity-as-condition for objective validity, not just correlation.
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