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Metaontology and the Substantivity Dispute

Whether ontological disputes are genuine disagreements or artifacts of how the parties speak

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This rung already has its place in the Ontology 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 definedeflationismsubstantive disputeverbal dispute
Assumesmetaontologyontologyontological commitmentQuine's criterionlinguistic frameworkexternal question

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