 So understood, the strict actualist rejects the intuition that drives both possibilism and haecceitism, viz., that de dicto modal propositions like  (2)  are grounded ultimately in the modal properties of, and relations among, individuals of some ilk. Rather, our illustrative statement  (2)  is, ultimately, brute; it is true simply because it is possible that (or there is a world at which) something is Bergoglio’s child, full stop, as there is nothing to instantiate the quantifier; there is nothing such that, possibly (or, at some world), it is Bergoglio’s child.