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Ontological commitment

In formal semantics, an ontological commitment of a language is one or more objects postulated to exist by that language. The 'existence' referred to need not be 'real', but exist only in a universe of discourse. As an example, legal systems use vocabulary referring to 'legal persons' that are collective entities that have rights. One says the legal…

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Ontological commitment

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related to External links · 11
Ontological commitment → Bricker, Edward, Henry Laycock, In Zalta, ISSN, OCLC, Ontological, Phillip, Philosophical Papers, Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia
related to Ontological parsimony · 7
Ontological commitment → Appeal, Glock, Occam's, Ontological, Quine, Quine's, Whatever
related to Quine's criterion · 7
Ontological commitment → Dean, Loux, Metaphysics, Michael, The Oxford Handbook, Willard Van Orman Quine, Zimmerman
related to Recent controversies · 7
Ontological commitment → Although, He, His, Inwagen, Quine's, The, This
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Ontological commitment → agreement to use the shared vocabulary in a coherent and consistent manner within a specific context.In philosophy

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Ontological commitmentis aagreement to use the shared vocabulary in a coherent and consistent manner within a specific context.In philosophy0.90text
universalsinstance ofand thus that subject-predicate sentences bear additional ontological commitment to abstract objects0.80text
setsinstance ofand thus that subject-predicate sentences bear additional ontological commitment to abstract objects0.80text
or classesinstance ofand thus that subject-predicate sentences bear additional ontological commitment to abstract objects0.80text
Ontological commitmentrelated to External linksBricker0.60section
Ontological commitmentrelated to External linksPhillip0.60section
Ontological commitmentrelated to External linksIn Zalta0.60section
Ontological commitmentrelated to External linksEdward0.60section
Ontological commitmentrelated to External linksStanford Encyclopedia0.60section
Ontological commitmentrelated to External linksPhilosophy0.60section
Ontological commitmentrelated to External linksISSN0.60section
Ontological commitmentrelated to External linksOCLC0.60section

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