1526.A Necessary

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A necessary condition of anything that is so much as possible is whatever it would somehow have to take account of, if only in the purely formal sense of being internally related to it, dependent upon it, influenced by it, and so on.   

By contrast, a necessary condition of the possibility of any individual in the specific sense of "understanding individual," i.e., an "existent" in the emphatic sense of the word, is whatever it would somehow have to take account of not only in the purely formal sense, but also in the specifically material sense of understanding it and, in that way, being internally related to it, dependent upon it, influenced by it, and so on.

The same logic applies, mutatis mutandis, to talk about a necessary condition of the possibility of any individual in the sense of "sentient individual": it would have to take account of any necessary condition of its possibility, not only purely formally, but also specifically materially, byfeelillg it, and, in that way, be internally related to it, dependent upon it, influenced by it, and so on.

17 September 2005; rev. 22 July 2006