Truthmakers and ontological commitment: or how to deal with complex objects and mathematical ontology without getting into trouble

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Ross P. Cameron
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[1] University of Leeds,Department of Philosophy
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Philosophical Studies | 2008年 / 140卷
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Ontological Commitment; Fundamentality; Metaontology; Composition; Neo-Fregeanism;
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What are the ontological commitments of a sentence? In this paper I offer an answer from the perspective of the truthmaker theorist that contrasts with the familiar Quinean criterion. I detail some of the benefits of thinking of things this way: they include making the composition debate tractable without appealing to a neo-Carnapian metaontology, making sense of neo-Fregeanism, and dispensing with some otherwise recalcitrant necessary connections.
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