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The Special Composition Question is: “when do some things compose something?” Almost all answers to the SCQ say that it will be metaphysically necessary whether composition occurs or not under given conditions. I argue that this cannot be assumed, and that with few exceptions, whether composition occurs boils down to a brute and contingent fact about existence. I then sketch out some interesting epistemic implications of this view.