Quinean Metaontology
Van Inwagen's five theses, thin and thick conceptions of being, and what the orthodoxy commits you to
Planned, not yet written
This rung already has its place in the Metaontology ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.
Will defineQuinean metaontologythin conception of beingthick conception of being
AssumesQuine's criterionquantifierexistence predicateregimentation