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Full Idea
One can often reduce one's ontological commitments by expanding one's logic.
Gist of Idea
You can reduce ontological commitment by expanding the logic
Source
Hartry Field (Science without Numbers [1980], p.ix)
Book Ref
Field,Hartry: 'Science without Number' [Blackwell 1980], p.-6
A Reaction
I don't actually understand this idea, but that's never stopped me before. Clearly, this sounds like an extremely interesting thought, and hence I should aspire to understand it. So I do aspire to understand it. First, how do you 'expand' a logic?