 Pickup defends this account from several objections. Against the objection that this is a heretical modalism, Pickup argues that it can’t be, since here God’s being three Persons is a fundamental metaphysical fact, not a derivative fact. Further, each Person is a real person, as real as any human person (426–7). Still, one may think the account denies the reality of the Persons. Pickup clarifies that they are not so many distinct realities, but rather each just is God. Nor are they parts of God. When this theory countenances the “distinctness of the Persons” it is not implying the numerical distinctness of the Persons, but only the distinctness of the person spaces they occupy (p1, p2, and p3). But as explained above, person spaces are not understood to be real entities (435).