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Ideas for 'works', 'The Metaontology of Abstraction' and 'Modal Realism at Work: Properties'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

12226	The identity of Pegasus with Pegasus may be true, despite the non-existence [Hale/Wright]
	Full Idea: Identity is sometimes read so that 'Pegasus is Pegasus' expresses a truth, the non-existence of any winged horse notwithstanding.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (The Metaontology of Abstraction [2009], §5)
	A reaction: This would give you ontological commitment to truth, without commitment to existence. It undercuts the use of identity statements as the basis of existence claims, which was Frege's strategy.