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Full Idea
Metaphysically, nothing in the actual world seems to be a candidate for determining what is necessarily the case.
Gist of Idea
There doesn't seem to be anything in the actual world that can determine modal facts
Source
Alan Sidelle (Necessity, Essence and Individuation [1989], Ch.4)
Book Ref
Sidelle,Alan: 'Necessity, Essence and Individuation' [Cornell 1989], p.115
A Reaction
I file this under 'Dispositions' to show what is at stake in the debate about dispositional and categorical properties. I take a commitment to dispositions to be a commitment to modal facts about the actual world.