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    Ethics IP23 restricts necessary existence to modes follow... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There are no non-actual infinite modes — every possible infinite mode necessarily exists and is therefore actual.

    Ethics IP23 restricts necessary existence to modes following from God's absolute nature, but many infinite modes follow only from God qua modified, weakening the modal transfer to necessity.

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    Ethics IP23(as the source being discussed)
    A reference to a specific proposition (IP23) from Spinoza's philosophical work 'Ethics,' which is a dense logical text organized like geometry with definitions, axioms, and propositions.
    God qua modified(as an alternative source for infinite modes)
    God considered as having properties or being affected by conditions, rather than God in their pure, unaffected essence (qua is Latin for 'in the capacity of').
    God's absolute nature(as what certain modes follow from)
    In Spinoza's system, God's pure, fundamental essence considered in itself, without any modifications or limitations.
    Infinite modes(as used in Spinoza's metaphysics)
    In Spinoza's philosophy, aspects of reality that are unlimited and flow endlessly from God's nature; they come in 'immediate' (direct from God) and 'mediate' (indirect, derived from other modes) types.

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    Modal transfer(as what is being weakened)
    A logical process where a property (like 'necessary' or 'possible') gets passed from one thing to another—in this case, whether necessity gets transferred to the modes.
    Necessary existence(Contrasted with contingent existence in discussion of God's mode of being)
    Existence that is not contingent; the being does not just happen to exist or not exist.
    modes(Spinoza's ontology distinguishing substance, attributes, and modes)
    Modifications of substance under an attribute; what appear to be individuated bodies are modes of substance under the attribute of Extension, not independently existing things

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