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    Challenges→The entailment relation invoked by an entailment account of ontological commitment must be knowable a priori by any ideally rational agent.

    If some logical or metaphysical entailments from true theories to existential conclusions are knowable only a posteriori, then rational failure to recognize ontological commitments need not constitute an a priori failure.

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    a posteriori(Used to classify the epistemic status of necessary statements post-Kripke)
    Knowable, but not independently of empirical experience
    a priori(Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.)
    Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
    entailment(Conceptualist framework)
    Understood in terms of truth at a world
    existential(existential conclusions)
    Relating to whether something actually exists or is real.
    metaphysical(Ayer's Logical Positivist usage)
    Language that purports to refer beyond the physical world and lacks empirical consequences, which Ayer classifies as not literally significant

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    ontological commitments(Quine's conception as applied to our best global theory)
    The demands that the truth of our total theory imposes on the world.
    rational failure(failure to recognize ontological commitments)
    When someone who is reasoning correctly or logically still fails to understand or recognize something.

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