Without necessarycausal connections, modes may follow from antecedents only contingently, making universal modal necessitation an unwarranted inference from Spinoza's definitions.
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In a way that could be true or false; depending on specific circumstances rather than being required by logic or nature.
inference(Nyāya epistemology)
A component of epistemology in Nyāya philosophy; a veritable inference yields knowledge about the world and must have premises that are themselves known
modal(in logic and metaphysics)
Dealing with possibility and necessity—questions about what could be true, what must be true, and what's merely contingent (could go either way).
modes(Spinoza's ontology distinguishing substance, attributes, and modes)
Modifications of substance under an attribute; what appear to be individuated bodies are modes of substance under the attribute of Extension, not independently existing things
necessitation(Used to move from K(p ∧ ¬Kp) is false to K(p ∧ ¬Kp) is necessarily false in Fitch's argument)
An inference rule by which, if a statement is (provably) false, it is necessarily false
universal(Argument for the generality of Turing machines)
A computing system capable of simulating any other computing system of the same or lesser power; used here to describe Turing machines as the most general model of computation.