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    Strawson conceives the Deduction as showing that the skep... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Strawson's interpretation of the B-Deduction is motivated by anti-skeptical concerns not present in Kant's own aims

    Strawson conceives the Deduction as showing that the skeptic about the external world is mistaken

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    According to one widespread reading of the B-Deduction, §§15–20 comprise a an argument whose only assumption is the premise about self-consciousness that Kant defends in §16. Strawson, for example, is a proponent of such an interpretation (1966), as are Robert Paul Wolff (1963), Jonathan Bennett (1966), Henry Allison (1983), Edwin McCann (1985), and Dennis Schulting (2012a). Demonstrating that we represent objects or an objective world has a key role in most versions of this reading. On Strawson

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