Full Idea
Anti-realist philosophers, and those who hope to reduce metaphysics to (or replace it with) the philosophy of language, owe the rest of us an account of the ontology of language.
Clarification
The 'ontology' here concerns whether language itself exists
Gist of Idea
Anti-realists who reduce reality to language must explain the existence of language
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], 20.6)
Book Reference
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.249
A Reaction
A nice turning-the-tables question. In all accounts of relativism, x is usually said to be relative to y. You haven't got proper relativism if you haven't relativised both x and y. But relativised them to what? Nietzsche's 'perspectivism' (Idea 4420)?
Related Idea
Idea 4420 There is only 'perspective' seeing and knowing, and so the best objectivity is multiple points of view [Nietzsche]