Truthmakers and ontological commitment: or how to deal with complex objects and mathematical ontology without getting into trouble |
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Authors: | Ross P. Cameron |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK |
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Abstract: | What are the ontological commitments of a sentence? In this paper I offer an answer from the perspective of the truthmaker theorist that contrasts with the familiar Quinean criterion. I detail some of the benefits of thinking of things this way: they include making the composition debate tractable without appealing to a neo-Carnapian metaontology, making sense of neo-Fregeanism, and dispensing with some otherwise recalcitrant necessary connections. |
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Keywords: | Ontological Commitment Fundamentality Metaontology Composition Neo-Fregeanism |
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