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Full Idea
Quantification over members of one particular world is a measure of ideology, quantification that crosses possible worlds is often a measure of ideology.
Gist of Idea
Commitment to possible worlds is part of our ideology, not part of our ontology
Source
Jaakko Hintikka (Semantics for Propositional Attitudes [1969], p.95), quoted by William Lycan - The Trouble with Possible Worlds 02
Book Ref
'The Possible and the Actual', ed/tr. Loux,Michael J. [Cornell 1979], p.280
A Reaction
I like this. See Idea 15785 for the underlying distinction. It leaves the question open of what we might mean by 'ideological commitment'.
Related Idea
Idea 15785 Our commitments are to an 'ontology', but also to an 'ideology', or conceptual system [Hintikka]