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    The B-Deduction §§15–20 can be derived from a single premise about self-consciousness

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    • 1.Kant defends a premise about self-consciousness in §16
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    • 2.The argument of §§15–20 follows from that self-consciousness premise alone
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    • 1.Dieter Henrich's influential reading demonstrates that §§17–20 require an independent premise about objective validity drawn from the Transcendental Analytic's table of categories.
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    • 2.The self-consciousness premise of §16 establishes only formal unity of representations, not their application to objects, leaving the categories' objective validity unexplained without additional premises.
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    • 3.Béatrice Longuenesse's reconstruction shows that the productive synthesis of imagination in §24 is needed to bridge apperception and categorial determination, making a single-premise derivation structurally incomplete.
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    • 1.§15's unity-of-combination argument is logically prior to §16 and cannot be derived from the self-consciousness premise alone.
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    • 2.Kant explicitly introduces the pure concept of combination as a spontaneous act before invoking the 'I think' of apperception, establishing an independent argumentative foundation.
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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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