Kant's own transcendental deduction argues that objective validity of categories is secured exclusively through their relation to possible experience, not through any mind-independent grounding.

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Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
Mind-independent grounding(as what Kant argues categories do NOT rely on): A foundation or justification that exists separately from human thinking—something that would be true even if no minds existed to think about it.
Possible experience(describing the boundary of what we can know): In Kant's philosophy, anything that could potentially be observed or experienced by a human being within the limits of how human minds work.
Transcendental Deduction(The Critique of Pure Reason; the deduction spans multiple sections and is not complete at §20): Kant's argument establishing the legitimate application of the pure concepts of the understanding (categories) to objects of experience

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