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

    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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    • 1.Transcendental unity of apperception establishes only the logical structure of 'I think,' not how representations connect to external objects.
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    • 2.Kant's own distinction between subjective and objective validity requires the deduction to show categories apply necessarily to experience, not just coherence.
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    • 3.Without additional argument from synthesis of intuitions, formal unity leaves a gap between mental representation and objective reference.
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    • 1.The 'additional premises' invoked are already implicit in §16's framework—the synthesis of intuitions is constitutive of apperception itself.
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    • 2.Objective validity emerges directly from the insight that representations *must* conform to the unity condition to be representations at all.
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    Key Terms

    Representations(as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
    Mental images, ideas, or thoughts that stand in for things in the world—essentially, how your mind depicts or understands reality.
    categories(Kantian epistemology)
    The most basic concepts of objects in general, which are unavoidably employed whenever we think about anything whatsoever
    formal unity(Cajetan's account, accepted also by Fonseca)
    The indivisibility of a common nature into further more specific kinds, which is compatible with division of the nature into numerically many instances or subjective parts.
    objective validity(Kant's epistemology; contrasted with merely subjective validity)
    The property of a representation whereby it represents an objective feature of reality — a feature whose existence and nature is independent of how it is perceived.
    self-consciousness(The proposed single foundational premise of the B-Deduction on the Strawsonian reading)
    The capacity to be conscious of one's diverse experiences as unified and all one's own, defended by Kant in §16 of the B-Deduction
    §16(as academic notation)
    Section 16 of a philosophical text (the § symbol means 'section'); this refers to a specific argument made earlier in the work being discussed.

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