2611 | It is currently held that quantifying over something implies belief in its existence [Ayer] |
19486 | We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine] |
16963 | Existence is implied by the quantifiers, not by the constants [Quine] |
1610 | To be is to be the value of a variable, which amounts to being in the range of reference of a pronoun [Quine] |
5747 | "No entity without identity" - our ontology must contain items with settled identity conditions [Quine, by Melia] |
10700 | First- and second-order quantifiers are two ways of referring to the same things [Boolos] |
13877 | Singular terms in true sentences must refer to objects; there is no further question about their existence [Wright,C] |
12213 | Ontological claims are often universal, and not a matter of existential quantification [Fine,K] |
12440 | If objectual quantifiers ontologically commit, so does the metalanguage for its semantics [Azzouni] |