In formal semantics, an ontological commitment of a language is one or more objects postulated to exist by that language. The 'existence' referred to need...

unsatisfied. The notion of ontological commitment plays a central role in Quine's contributions to ontology. A theory is ontologically committed to an entity...

such as naturalism, confirmational holism, and the criterion of ontological commitment. Putnam gave Quine's argument its first detailed formulation in...

assess the ontological status of intentional objects. Ontological dependence is a relation between entities. An entity depends ontologically on another...

to interpret the meaning of ontological claims. Different meta-ontological theories disagree on what the goal of ontology is and whether a given issue...

conceptualization is an ontology, and it may occur that a conceptualization can be realized by several distinct ontologies. An ontological commitment in describing...

have an ontological commitment to them. The argument is described by the following syllogism: (Premise 1) We ought to have ontological commitment to all...

idea that true sentences from the sciences and other fields have ontological commitments, that is, they imply that certain entities exist. For example,...

evaluating ontological claims. This position is exemplified by Quine's method of ontology, which involves analyzing the ontological commitments of scientific...

inscrutable, because it is subject to the background language and ontological commitments of the speaker. Along with the holophrastic indeterminacy, the...

groundwork for an ontology. Each uses ontological assumptions to frame explicit theories, research and applications. Improved ontologies may improve problem...

to various disciplines. A central issue in regard to ontology concerns the ontological commitments associated with the use of logic, for example, with...

seem to imply ontological commitments to possible worlds. A common objection to modal realism is that it leads to an inflated ontology, which some think...

Foundations of Ontology. Oxford University Press: 347–383. Retrieved 23 November 2021. Bricker, Phillip (2016). "Ontological Commitment". The Stanford...

effort is necessarily finite, Wittgenstein's philosophy required an ontological commitment to radical constructivism and finitism. Meta-mathematical statements...

"there are populations with genetic diversity", this theory has an ontological commitment to the existence of populations with genetic diversity. Alexius...

expressions with apparently problematic ontological commitments into ones that are free of such commitments. Actualism has been challenged by truthmaker...

about the world rather than taking action in it." "It is a set of ontological commitments", i.e., "an answer to the question: In what terms should I think...

scientific method; they are intended to be neither laden with ontological commitments nor statements of logical absolutes. Social sciences such as economics...

ontological commitment, according to which the existential quantifier of first order logic and singular terms are devices of ontological commitment....

formalists attempted "to block, avoid, or sidestep (in some way) any ontological commitment to a problematic realm of abstract objects." German mathematicians...

value. An attempt of forming an objective construct incorporates ontological commitments to the reality of objects. The importance of perception in evaluating...

avoid the extremist use of language, that is, to eliminate any ontological commitment to concepts while at the same time retaining their pragmatic value...

plurally, then second-order logic can be interpreted as having no ontological commitment to entities other than those over which the first-order variables...

Van Orman Quine, hold that quantification entails ontological commitments, in this case, a commitment to the existence of possible worlds. Quine himself...

and sets. The form of the argument is as follows. One must have ontological commitments to all entities that are indispensable to the best scientific theories...

Russell's theory of descriptions and contains Quine's famous dictum of ontological commitment, "To be is to be the value of a variable". He also dubbed the problem...

is not clear whether in 1874 this ... was intended to carry any ontological commitment" (Chrudzimski and Smith 2004, p. 205). A major problem within discourse...

is a fictional character" Meinong's jungle Meta-ontology Nonexistent objects Ontological commitment Plato's beard Round square copula W. V. O. Quine...

the ontological status of impossible worlds. Meinong's jungle is a term used to describe the repository of non-existent objects in the ontology of Alexius...