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    It is not the case that The necessity required for demonstration applies to all things under the subject on account of what they are.

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    • 1.Aristotle's own Posterior Analytics distinguishes per se necessity from mere universal predication, allowing accidental universals that don't ground demonstration.
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    • 2.If necessity were solely grounded in what subjects are, mathematical truths about physical objects would require no empirical supplementation, which Aristotle denies in Physics II.
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    • 1.Aquinas and Scotus both argue that essential predication admits degrees of necessity, so 'on account of what they are' underdetermines which essentialist claims license demonstration.
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    • 2.A subject's essence can ground conflicting demonstrative necessities when the same subject falls under multiple scientific domains, as in the case of harmonics and arithmetic.
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    • 1.Demonstrative necessity is characterized as de omni, per se, and universale.
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    • 2.This kind of necessity is universal and grounded in the essence of the things under the subject.
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