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    It is not the case that Kant's argument from B141 assumes objective unity requires apperception, but this conflates epistemic normativity with psychological unification.

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    • 1.For Kant, apperception constitutes the very standard of objectivity; the distinction between epistemic and psychological is a modern imposition.
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    • 2.Objective unity just means representations are unified according to the rules of understanding, which apperception itself provides and enforces.
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    • 3.Without apperceptive unity, there are only subjective associations; objectivity requires precisely the normative synthesis apperception supplies.
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    • 1.Apperception is a psychological capacity about how minds unify representations, distinct from epistemic standards about what counts as objective knowledge.
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    • 2.Kant's B141 argument requires representations to satisfy objective validity, but psychological unification alone doesn't guarantee normative epistemic status.
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    • 3.A subject could psychologically synthesize representations without those representations thereby referring to mind-independent objects.
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