 One motivation for developing a non-modal conception of ontological dependence is that the modal-existential analysis appears to be too coarse-grained for some cases. We have already discussed some of these cases, but the most well-known examples have been made famous by Fine (e.g., 1994b). Consider, for instance, what the modal-existential account entails in the case of necessary existents. Take Socrates and the number 2, for example. Given that numbers necessarily exist, it is necessarily the case that 2 exists if Socrates does. But presumably we do not want to say that Socrates depends upon the number 2, or indeed on most necessary existents that you might put in the place of 2. So the modal-existential account makes everything depend upon every necessary existent, which seems like the wrong result.