Necessity and Possibility not entified realities

Necessity وجوب and Possibility امکان are not entified realities حقائق عینی neither are these notions مفاھیم primary philosophical intelligibles معقولات اولیہ similar to universal quiditties ماھیت کلی, that are abstracted by the Intellect عقل from entified existences; there is nothing in the objective world that can be pointed to and singled out as necessity or possibility just as the concept of ownership is not something endowed with concrete existence وجود خارج in the real world, but is a notion that is abstracted from specific entified existences belonging to the essences of the owner and the owned, because that which exists in concreto are the essences of the owner and the owned, and not ownership, but the mind abstracts this concept of ownership from the relation اضافہ that subsists between the two; in fact even the owner and the owned are not entified realities per se but are properties that are attributed or predicated to specific quiditties, therefore the mind predicates the attribute of being the owner to man, and the attribute of being the owned to land; here that which has existence in the objective world are the quiddities of man and the land; just as the notions of cause علت and an effect معلول do not have an entified instance in the objective reality but are properties that are predicated to different quiditties, as there is no such thing as a cause per se in concrete existence but what exists in reality are quiditties to which the attribute of being a cause is predicated; this is because cause and effect, owner and owned are all universal concepts like primary philosophical intelligibles and therefore cannot exist in the objective world as such otherwise they would cease to be predicable to a plurality کثرت of individuals; the case with necessity and Possibility is also the same.

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