If ontological commitment tracks entailment without privileging quantificational structure, there is no principled basis for distinguishing genuine commitment from rhetorical or instrumental assertion of existence claims.
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A statement made primarily for effect or persuasion, rather than because you actually believe it's true—like when someone says 'There are a million reasons why you're wrong' without meaning exactly one million.
entailment(Conceptualist framework)
Understood in terms of truth at a world
ontological commitment(Used to derive that literal truth of 'a is F' entails existence of a)
The criterion by which acceptance of a sentence as literally true commits one to the existence of the objects referred to by singular terms in that sentence, provided the sentence cannot be paraphrased away.
principled basis(as used in ethics and reasoning)
A solid foundation or reason for doing something that is based on clear, consistent rules or values rather than on whim or favoritism.