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    It is not the case that Kant does not need a separate argument for transcendental idealism in the Transcendental Analytic.

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    • 1.The Transcendental Aesthetic's conclusion that intuitions yield appearances presupposes space and time are mind-dependent, which requires independent justification.
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    • 2.Henry Allison's 'epistemic conditions' reading shows the Analytic introduces distinct constraints—conceptual synthesis—that cannot be derived from aesthetic results alone.
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    • 3.Without a separate argument in the Analytic, Kant cannot explain why the categories, unlike intuitions, do not yield knowledge of things in themselves through intellectual intuition.
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    • 1.P.F. Strawson's 'bounds of sense' critique establishes that the Analytic's deduction of categories introduces a new transcendental claim about objectivity irreducible to the Aesthetic's spatial-temporal idealism.
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    • 2.The unity of apperception introduced in the Analytic is a spontaneous, non-sensible condition that demands its own idealist grounding distinct from the passivity-based argument of the Aesthetic.
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    • 1.The Transcendental Aesthetic already established that empirical intuitions yield appearances rather than things in themselves.
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    • 2.The Transcendental Analytic establishes that the categories yield knowledge only when applied to intuitions.
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    • 3.It automatically follows from these two results that the categories yield cognition only of appearances.
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