 Even if facts or states of affairs do not contain objects such as substances or events, some may still be about, or concern, such objects. This notion of aboutness has recently been assigned heavy metaphysical duties. Thus, Shamik Dasgupta (2014, 2017) defines qualitative facts as facts which are not about any particular individuals, and argues that all the basic facts that constitute the universe are qualitative, the individualistic (i.e., non-qualitative) facts being grounded in that qualitative basis (see below on grounding as a relation between facts). And Dan Marshall exploits the notion of factual aboutness for the purpose of theorizing about intrinsicality. In his 2016a, he argues that a number of different notions of intrinsicality can be analysed in terms of the notion of a state of affairs being intrinsically about something, and in his 2016b he defends a particular account of that sort.