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Various extensional notions of ontological commitment

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    Terence Parsons

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Author's note: I am indebted to W. V. O. Quine, K. Pyne, and J. Sicha for discussion on this topic. Several points very similar to ones made here (see the notes) and in my earlier paper, “Extensional Theories of Ontological Commitment,” Journal of Philosophy, 64:446–50 (July 1967), supported by very similar arguments, have been made independently by Professor John Wallace in an unpublished paper titled “Ontological Commitment and the Theory of Reference.”

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Parsons, T. Various extensional notions of ontological commitment. Philos Stud 21, 65–74 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00420738

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