Ontological Commitment and Paraphrase

This video provides an introduction to ontological commitment, Quine's theory of ontological commitment, and paraphrase. 00:00 Ontological Commitment (Introduction) 03:30 Quine's Theory 14:23 What Theories Should I Accept? 15:37 A Problem! 19:10 Paraphrase as a Solution Correction: One of the paraphrases I use involving George Washington existed, I accidentally keep the tense in the sentence. 🌐 SUBSCRIBE to my channel for more videos: https://goo.gl/ukVPLo Sources and Credits: Img of Quine: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... •Bricker, Phillip, "Ontological Commitment", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.) •Smid , Jeroen. 2020. The logic behind Quine’s criterion of ontological commitment. European Journal of Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejop.12534 • Tatjana von Solodkoff . 2014. Paraphrase Strategies in Metaphysics. Philosophy Compass 9(8): 570 580. • Van Inwagen, Peter. 1988. Meta Ontology. Erkenntnis . 48(2/3): 233-255.