| 10784 | Whenever there's speech it has to be about something [Plato] |
| 13879 | For Frege, ontological questions are to be settled by reference to syntactic structures [Frege, by Wright,C] |
| 6060 | 'Existence' means that a propositional function is sometimes true [Russell] |
| 13938 | A linguistic framework involves commitment to entities, so only commitment to the framework is in question [Carnap] |
| 19485 | Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine] |
| 11101 | General terms don't commit us ontologically, but singular terms with substitution do [Quine] |
| 8496 | What actually exists does not, of course, depend on language [Quine] |
| 10667 | A logically perfect language could express all truths, so all truths must be logically expressible [Quine, by Hossack] |
| 15785 | Our commitments are to an 'ontology', but also to an 'ideology', or conceptual system [Hintikka] |
| 10548 | The context principle for names rules out a special philosophical sense for 'existence' [Dummett] |
| 10281 | The objects we recognise the world as containing depends on the structure of our language [Dummett] |
| 18211 | You can reduce ontological commitment by expanding the logic [Field,H] |
| 12226 | The identity of Pegasus with Pegasus may be true, despite the non-existence [Hale/Wright] |
| 7678 | Ontology must include the minimum requirements for our semantics [Jacquette] |
| 8258 | Two of the main rivals for the foundations of ontology are substances, and facts or states-of-affairs [Lowe] |
| 8301 | Some abstractions exist despite lacking causal powers, because explanation needs them [Lowe] |
| 12449 | Modern metaphysics often derives ontology from the logical forms of sentences [Azzouni] |
| 10643 | We speak of a theory's 'ideological commitments' as well as its 'ontological commitments' [Linnebo] |
| 10668 | We are committed to a 'group' of children, if they are sitting in a circle [Hossack] |
| 14491 | Rival ontological claims can both be true, if there are analytic relationships between them [Thomasson] |
| 18770 | We can distinguish 'ontological' from 'existential' commitment, for different kinds of being [Anderson,CA] |