  With this analysis in hand, let us return to Garrett’s proposed account of Spinoza’s necessitarianism. Garrett claims in [iv] that each particular mode, conceived in relation to all the other particular modes, follows from God’s nature, and he concludes that therefore every finite mode exists necessarily. However, according to [v], the same finite mode conceived independently of the relation to every other finite modes fails to follow from God and so fails to exist necessarily. Spinoza’s conceptual account of modality explains why he thought modality works in this particular way.