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    It is not the case that An adequate account of ontological commitment must track what a theory requires the world to contain, and the entailment account does this where the quantifier account cannot.

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    • 1.Entailment relations depend on background logic and theoretical context, making commitment determinate in ways quantifiers are not.
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    • 2.The quantifier account has clear criteria: commitment = domain of quantification. Entailment requires settling disputed logical principles first.
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    • 3.Entailment conflates what a theory logically implies with what it genuinely commits us to believing exists in reality.
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    • 1.Quantifier accounts conflate linguistic form with ontological commitment, missing what theories actually require to be true.
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    • 2.Entailment tracks modal consequences: what must exist if a theory's core claims are true, revealing hidden commitments.
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    • 3.Two theories with identical quantificational structure can differ in what they entail about the world's contents.
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