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    It is not the case that The soundness of the B-Deduction argument is imperiled

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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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    • 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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