 Others, taking the project of developing categories in an explicitly realist spirit and driven by the goal of offering a parsimonious ontology, have aimed to offer a more minimal system of fundamental ontological categories. For example, Laurie Paul (2016) has recently defended a ‘one-category’ ontology that accepts (at the fundamental level) only the existence of intrinsic characters or qualities. Against those who accept more categories, she argues that we have no need (for example) for a fundamental division between individuals and their properties, and that a one-category ontology is both more parsimonious and has a better claim to carve the world at its ‘ontological joints’.