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"On What There Is"


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Predicate Object
arguesAgainst traditional metaphysical ontology
arguesAgainst uncritical acceptance of abstract entities
author Willard Van Orman Quine
surface form: W. V. O. Quine
author Willard Van Orman Quine
centralThesis our ontological commitments are determined by what our best theories quantify over
centralThesis questions of what there is are to be settled by examining the quantificational structure of our theories
containsCharacter McX
containsCharacter Wyman
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
critiques Alexius Meinong's theory of objects
field metaphysics
field ontology
field philosophy
field philosophy of language
hasNotableQuote To be is to be the value of a bound variable.
hasSection critique of Meinongian ontology
influenced analytic metaphysics
influenced ontological debates in analytic philosophy
influenced philosophy of language in the 20th century
influenced theories of ontological commitment
influencedBy Bertrand Russell
influencedBy Rudolf Carnap
influencedBy logical empiricism
influencedBy logical positivism
instanceOf academic article
instanceOf philosophical essay
isConsidered classic text in analytic metaphysics
isConsidered seminal essay on ontological commitment
language English
mainTopic abstract objects
mainTopic existence
mainTopic logical analysis of language
mainTopic nominalism
mainTopic ontological commitment
mainTopic ontology
mainTopic paraphrase in philosophy
mainTopic quantification
mainTopic universals
methodologicalApproach logical analysis of formalized language
philosophicalTradition analytic philosophy
proposes criterion of ontological commitment based on bound variables of quantification
publicationYear 1948
publishedIn Review of Metaphysics
relatedWorkByAuthor “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”
surface form: Two Dogmas of Empiricism
relatedWorkByAuthor Word and Object
supportsView ontological relativity to a background theory
usesExample Pegasus
usesExample fictional entities
usesExample mythical creatures

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From a Logical Point of View notableEssay
"On What There Is"
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