If particular salvific events are ontologically necessary, then the scope and character of those events must constrain who can be saved, making epistemic access a derivative necessity.

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Constrain(Describing how the principles limit the gap between knowledge and belief): To limit or restrict the possibilities—the analysis narrows down how much difference can exist between knowledge and belief.
Derivative necessity(metaphysics and logic): Something that is necessary only as a result of something else being necessary—a second-order requirement that follows from a primary one.
Epistemic access(used to show that the distinction might only be about our different ways of knowing, not about reality itself): The different ways we can know about or gain knowledge of something—essentially, how we're able to learn about it.
Ontologically necessary(describing the monarch's role as necessary to existence itself): Required to exist as a matter of fundamental reality itself—not optional or accidental, but essential to how things actually are.

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Ontology/Ontological(in metaphysics)

The philosophical study of what actually exists or is real, as opposed to what merely seems to exist or what we can know about things.

Salvific events(religious philosophy)

Events or moments that are believed to save or rescue people—in religious contexts, usually referring to divine acts that bring spiritual salvation.

character(Semantic theory of indexical expressions; terminology due to Kaplan (1989))

A rule which determines the content of an expression given a context of utterance; formally, a function (or something that determines a function) from contexts to contents.

epistemology/epistemic(the 'epistemic' in 'epistemically determinate')

Epistemology is the study of knowledge and how we know things. 'Epistemic' means 'related to knowledge or knowing.'

scope(formal semantics / generalized quantifier theory)

The second argument of a type ⟨1,1⟩ determiner denotation

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