 While it is possible to avoid some of the challenges raised for the modal-existential account with these qualifications, they do nevertheless call for an alternative, more fine-grained account of ontological dependence that could also be applied to necessary existents. As last resort, a proponent of the modal-existential account who does not wish to buy into essentialist ontology could simply bite the bullet and insist that every contingent entity does rigidly depend for its existence on necessary existents. One reason to do so would be the ability to get by with a sparser battery of formal ontological tools—a consideration motivated by parsimony.