Full Idea
Quine's test of ontological commitment says that anything that can be said truly at all must be capable of being said in a logically perfect language, so there must be a paraphrase of every truth into the language of logic.
Gist of Idea
A logically perfect language could express all truths, so all truths must be logically expressible
Source
report of Willard Quine (works [1961]) by Keith Hossack - Plurals and Complexes 2
Book Reference
-: 'British Soc for the Philosophy of Science' [-], p.414
A Reaction
A very nice statement of the Quinean view, much more persuasive than other statements I have encountered. I am suddenly almost converted to a doctrine I have hitherto despised. Isn't philosophy wonderful?