 Perhaps more importantly, an appeal to (EDA) does not seem to help to resolve the difficulty raised by the example of Socrates’s life. For neither Socrates nor his life is existentially dependentA on the other, since in neither case is clause (ii) of (EDA) satisfied. But we were looking for a sense of “ontologically dependent” in which it is true to say that Socrates’s life is ontologically dependent upon him, but not vice versa.