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    It is not the case that There are no non-actual infinite modes — every possible infinite mode necessarily exists and is therefore actual.

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    • 1.Spinoza's modal system permits a distinction between what follows from God's absolute nature and what follows from God as modified, leaving room for unrealized modes.
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    • 2.Ethics IP23 restricts necessary existence to modes following from God's absolute nature, but many infinite modes follow only from God qua modified, weakening the modal transfer to necessity.
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    • 3.If the modal transfer principle applies only to immediate infinite modes (e.g., motion-and-rest), mediate infinite modes inherit only conditional necessity, not absolute necessity entailing actuality.
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    • 1.Leibniz's possibilism demonstrates that necessity within a world-relative system is compatible with genuinely non-actualized possibles, challenging the claim that Spinozistic necessity collapses possibility into actuality.
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    • 2.The argument conflates hypothetical necessity (p necessarily follows given q) with absolute necessity (□p), and Spinoza's own texts in the Short Treatise suggest modes exhibit only the former relative to their causal antecedents.
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    • 1.Necessity entails actuality (□p → p).
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    • 2.Any infinite mode must, by definition, follow from God's absolute nature (either immediately or mediately).
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    • 3.True definitions express necessary truths, so if an infinite mode follows from God's absolute nature in any possible world, it follows necessarily.
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