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Perhaps just as "all possibility" is one thing, "the common element" thereof, something else, so the same is true of "the undifferentiated potentiality of all things" and "the necessary." The necessary is not identical with the undifferentiated potentiality, in the sense of the eternal continuum of qualitative possibilities (or Peirce's "multitude beyond all multitude"); rather, the necessary is identical with what is common to the undifferentiated potentiality – -- what cannot itself be differentiated, because it is the universally common element of all possibilities and actualities.

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