Talk:Ontological commitment

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This thought was incomplete in the article, as is. If someone can complete it, it should be put back, but its sloppy to have such things in the article space. —siroχo 10:36, Oct 15, 2004 (UTC)

Other examples are negative existential statements , such as "there is no such thing as Pegasus". This sentence appears to deny the existence of a certain object – Pegasus – but on closer analysis

[edit] What does the “[sic]” refer to?

Does anyone understand what the “[sic]” comment in the Quine quote refers to?

Formally it is precisely in allowing quantification over class variables α, β, &c., that we assume a range of values for these variables to refer [sic] to.

— Daniel Brockman 19:54, 10 December 2005 (UTC)