As for those passages in which Spinoza seems to profess full-blown necessitarianism (i.e., Ip16, 17, 29, 33, IAppendix), his appeals to necessity could be ambiguous between a strong form of determinism and full-blown necessitarianism. Yes, everything finite necessarily follows from something else, ad infinitum, and so is “necessary” in the sense of “being fully determined,” but nothing finite follows entirely from something that necessarily exists, and so no finite mode exists necessarily in the full-blown sense of that term.[11] Importantly, Curley defends Spinoza’s rejection of necessitarianism without positing a complete causal gap between finite modes and God’s nature; finite modes do partly follow from God and God’s infinite modes.