 The core of the worry is this: if there is no fundamental level, then there is no way to account for relative fundamentality, and hence one of the two key tasks for fundamentality would be lost. In contrast, the friend of  (RI)  can still construct a priority ordering using her favorite notion of dependence, since no absolutely fundamental level is needed to get the ordering started (Schaffer 2016a,  158).[19]  How can the primitivist reply?