 Strawson  (1959) introduced the notion of ‘descriptive metaphysics’ to self-describe his attempt to explain what ‘individuals’ are, according to ordinary language. Projects like this do not seek to carve out the ontic joints in nature so much as show where ‘the folk’ supposedly think such joints are, as implied by their language use. Projects like this represent attempts to describe our metaphysical picture of the world rather than argue that the picture is right.