Modality
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CATEGORY MEANING ATTRIBUTES Logical necessity True Unqualified of Being Logical impossibility False Unqualified of Being Physical necessity Always World & Time; All or One Physical impossibility Never World & Time; All or One Actual necessity Existent Within specific context Actual impossibility Inexistent Within specific context ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Logical possibility in mens Self-consistent (Existence) Grounded in Divine Mind Physical possibility in mens Conjunctions (Essences) As Thing, Essence, and Act Actual possibility in res Unknown (Hypostases) Separate Time & Space Physically possible substances and acts must at some time exist in the actual world, And therefore substances and acts that never exist in the actual world are physically impossible, because an essence is known from its acts apophatically, and so in order for an essence to be defined, and to be more than merely logically possible, it must exist in an actual, acting substance at least once. But this does not mean all physically possible accidental bundles must actually exist.
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CATEGORY MEANING ATTRIBUTESLogical necessity True Unqualified of BeingLogical impossibility False Unqualified of BeingPhysical necessity Always World & Time; All or
OnePhysical impossibility Never World & Time; All or
OneActual necessity Existent Within specific contextActual impossibility Inexistent Within specific context~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Logical possibility in mens
Self-consistent (Existence)
Grounded in Divine Mind
Physical possibility in mens
Conjunctions (Essences)
As Thing, Essence, and Act
Actual possibility in res Unknown (Hypostases) Separate Time & Space
Physically possible substances and acts must at some time exist in the actual world,And therefore substances and acts that never exist in the actual world are physically impossible, because an essence is known from its acts apophatically, and so in order for an essence to be defined, and to be more than merely logically possible, it must exist in an actual, acting substance at least once. But this does not mean all physically possible accidental bundles must actually exist.
