If there is infinite complexity in the world, all the way down, then nothing would be basic after all. But we don’t know for sure that this is true. And perhaps there is a level of nature that is as simple as we are capable of knowing. That might do for a relative primitivism about causation. It could be at least as simple as anything else we know, even if there is hidden complexity within it. The point is, however, that some primitivisms will probably be right, so there is nothing that is obviously wrong about making a primitivist move. It ought at least to be an option.
Primitivism. Interestingly similar to the four forces
