Meinong's distinction between Sein and Sosein, and Quine's criterion of ontological commitment, both show that 'demanding scrutiny' is not equivalent to having equivalent ontological status.
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A German philosophical term meaning 'being-such' or 'how something is'—basically, all the qualities and characteristics an object has, regardless of whether it actually exists.
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.