If apperceptive unity is itself an empirical regularity—as Mach and later Lichtenberg suggested—then invoking a priori concepts merely relocates, not resolves, the explanatory burden.
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a priori(Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.)
Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
empirical regularity(as what actually happens, versus what must be true by logic)
A pattern in the world that we notice through observation and experience—like how the sun always rises in the east—but that could theoretically be different.