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    The soundness of the B-Deduction argument is imperiled — Carmelics
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    The soundness of the B-Deduction argument is imperiled

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    • 1.Kant's argument in B150-156 requires that the unity of apperception governs ALL intuitions, not merely those already conceptualized.
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    • 2.Kant provides no principled mechanism by which spontaneity reaches down to constrain receptivity prior to synthesis, as Longuenesse and Allison both concede.
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    • 3.Without this mechanism, the universality claim in B143 ('categories apply to all objects of experience') lacks transcendental grounding and becomes a mere empirical generalization.
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    • 1.The B-Deduction's two-step structure requires that the unity established in §20 for intuitions-in-general transfers to the specific manifold of human sensible intuition in §26.
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    • 2.Sellars and more recently Beatrice Longuenesse demonstrate that this transfer illicitly assumes that the form of inner sense (time) is itself a product of the understanding's figurative synthesis.
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    • 3.If time's unity is presupposed rather than derived from apperception, the argument is circular, undermining the deduction's claim to demonstrate necessity rather than merely describe cognitive architecture.
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    • 1.The overall argument of the B-Deduction depends on establishing (S)
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    • 2.Kant cannot establish (S) because co-consciousness for arbitrary intuitions is implausibly actual or possible
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    which allows that the individual elements of the intuition are such that the subject can only become conscious of each separately, perhaps in turn. He contends, however, that the unity expressed by (W) is insufficient to generate this need for synthesis. If I am merely (possibly or actually) serially conscious of the elements of an intuition, it won’t be required that I synthesize them into a unified intuition. Howell goes on to argue that while (W) is credible, Kant cannot in fact establish (S)
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