 All possibilities of being receive intelligible or objective being as the objects of God’s knowledge. Some of these are included in God’s providential plan of creation and will receive actual being. The description of a possible state of affairs at a certain moment consists of compossible possibilities. Since finite beings are contingently actual, alternative possibilities are possible with respect to the time of their actuality, but they are not compossible with what is actual. According to Scotus, impossibilities are incompossibilities between possible ingredients, such as Socrates’s sitting at a certain time and Socrates’s not sitting at that same time (Lectura I.39.1–5, 62–63; Ordinatio I.35, 32, 49–51; I.36, 60–1; I.43, 5–7, 14).