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    It is not the case that The B-Deduction §§15–20 can be derived from a single premise about self-consciousness

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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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    • 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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