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Ideas for 'Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects', 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis' and 'Two-Dimensional Semantics'

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

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General terms don't commit us ontologically, but singular terms with substitution do [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / b. Commitment of quantifiers

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Singular terms in true sentences must refer to objects; there is no further question about their existence [Wright,C]