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    Ontological modalities ground the differences between the real, ideal, knowledge, and logical spheres of being.

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    • 1.The modalities of possibility, necessity, and actuality distinguish principal and secondary spheres of being.
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    • 2.The real and ideal spheres are principal spheres, while knowledge and logic are secondary spheres.
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    • 1.Modal distinctions (possibility, necessity, actuality) are logical or epistemic categories, not ontological ones, as Kant demonstrated in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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    • 2.If modalities are forms of cognition rather than features of being, they cannot ground distinctions between ontological spheres without circularity.
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    • 1.Quine argued in 'On What There Is' that positing irreducibly distinct ontological spheres multiplies entities beyond necessity and violates parsimony.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'real' and 'ideal' spheres collapses if, as nominalists contend, ideal objects like mathematical entities have no mode of being independent of real instantiation or mental representation.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    Hartmann claims in Ontology: Laying the Foundations (1935) that the book “form[s] the prelude to an ontology that I have been working on for two decades,” and that “[a] new critical ontology has become possible. The task is to make it a reality” (v). The book paved the way for a systematic treatment of ontology by introducing (1) the difference between modes of being (the modalities of possibility, necessity and actuality), spheres of being (real and ideal), and ways of being (Dasein and Sosein)
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