 Nonetheless, Spinoza does think that all things depend on God (Ip15), and he points to an alternative account of how possibilities and possibilia might depend on God. He claims that non-existing modes are grounded in God’s actual attributes. “The ideas of singular things, or of modes, that do not exist must be comprehended God’s infinite idea in the same way as the formal essences of singular things, or modes, are contained in God’s attributes” (IIp8). He unpacks the “comprehension” or containment of non-divine formal essences in conceptual terms: “Essences [of non-existing things] are comprehended in another in such a way that they can be conceived through it” (Ip8s2). This suggests that the essences of all things, including non-existing things, are conceptually contained in God’s attributes.