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Ontological Realism and Joint-Carving

Sider's claim that quantification itself carves at the joints, and what makes a description natural

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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 defineontological realismjoint-carvingreference magnetism
Assumesquantifier variancedeflationismfundamentalityunrestricted quantifierideologystructurenaturalness

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