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    It is not the case that The necessity of the past (necessitas consequentis) is conflated by many medievals with the weaker necessity of consequence (necessitas consequentiae).

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    • 1.Medieval logicians explicitly developed formal systems distinguishing logical consequence from metaphysical necessity in their commentaries.
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    • 2.Attributing confusion to 'many medievals' requires specific textual evidence; sweeping claims obscure the sophistication of individual thinkers.
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    • 3.The claim itself requires clear definitions of both necessities, which may be harder to extract from medieval sources than the claim assumes.
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    • 1.Medieval texts frequently use 'necessitas' without distinguishing between what must be true and what follows logically from premises.
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    • 2.Conflating these distinctions would lead to determinism, a problem many medievals struggled with, suggesting the confusion was common.
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    • 3.Boethius and Aquinas's discussions of divine foreknowledge show ambiguity between logical consequence and metaphysical necessity.
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