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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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