ontology
“We are committed to those entities to which the bound variables of our best theories must be capable of referring.”
“What there is does not in general depend on language.”
“A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘‘What is there?’’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘‘Everything’’.”
“To be is to be the value of a bound variable.”