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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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