The Metaphysically Given as Absolute

1. All action is action of entities
2. every entity has only one action available to it at any given time
3. therefore the metaphysically given is absolute.

Because existence exists there are no alternatives possible as far as metaphysics is concerned—the metaphysically given is immutable, absolute.

”Absolute” in this context means necessitated by the nature of existence and, therefore, unchangeable by human (or any other) agency.¹

The necessary/contingent dichotomy is thus an error as far as metaphysics is concerned²—it is said by such theorists that a fact is “necessary” if the alternative would involve a contradiction, or positively, a fact that obtains “by necessity” is one that obtains “by identity.” Consider that all action is action of entities and every entity has only one action available to it at any given time; for there to be a metaphysical alternative–another “possible world”–would require that some set of entities act in some alternative ways—ways not caused by their nature, or rather caused by incompatible aspects of their nature. But A is A, so such other “possible worlds” is ruled out—to be is to be necessary.