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Quine's Criterion and 'On What There Is'

To be is to be the value of a bound variable, and what that test does and does not settle

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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 defineQuine's criterionquantifierregimentationPlato's beard
Assumesontological commitmentparaphraseexistence claimbound variable

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