 If there are true but incomplete ways of conceiving objects, Spinoza will occupy the interesting position of consistently affirming both necessitarianism and its denial, relative to these different ways of conceiving objects. This pairing sounds like a contradiction until we appreciate the force of Spinoza’s conceptualist account of modality. If the truth-value of modal predications is sensitive to ways of conceiving objects (as a modern day anti-essentialist might agree), and if Spinoza endorses a variety of modally salient ways of conceiving objects, then he can consistently affirm both the truth and falsity of full-blown necessitarianism relative to different ways of conceiving finite objects.