 However, there have been some speculative suggestions according to which chains of ontological dependence could go on ad infinitum, and hence violate the requirement of well-foundedness (for discussion, see Bliss 2013, Morganti 2014, and Tahko 2014). The resulting view would appear to be some sort of metaphysical infinitism as opposed to metaphysical foundationalism. One version of such a view, if combined with the idea that the direction of dependence is towards the smaller, is a “gunky” ontology, whereby matter is infinitely divisible “gunk” and objects or matter have no smallest parts. But as interesting as these views and the discussion surrounding fundamentality are, discussing them in detail here would take us too far from our original topic (for further discussion, see the separate entry on  fundamentality).