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    It is not the case that Every mode necessarily follows from something else

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    • 1.Hume's regularity theory of causation (Enquiry VII) demonstrates that necessary connection between cause and effect is a psychological projection, not an objective metaphysical relation.
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    • 2.If causal necessity is not a real feature of the world, P2's claim that causal relations involve necessary connections between relata loses its justificatory force.
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    • 3.Without necessary causal connections, modes may follow from antecedents only contingently, making universal modal necessitation an unwarranted inference from Spinoza's definitions.
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    • 1.Spinoza's own distinction between natura naturans and natura naturata implies Substance itself follows from nothing external, breaking the universality of the following-from relation.
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    • 2.If modes ultimately follow from Substance's own nature (Ip16), the causal chain terminates in immanent self-causation, not in another mode—making 'something else' ambiguous enough to undermine the claim's scope.
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    • 1.Spinoza's following-from relation is a causal relation
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    • 2.Causal relations involve necessary connections between relata (Iax3)
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    • 3.If y follows from x, then y necessarily follows from x
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