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Quine’s criterion of ontological commitment

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  • In philosophy of logic: Existence and ontology

    …of existence” just mentioned recalls Quine’s criterion of ontological commitment: “To be is to be a value of a bound variable”—i.e., of the x in (∀x) or in (∃x). According to Quine, a theory is committed to those and only those entities that in the last analysis serve as the…

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