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    Challenges→A theory containing '∃x x = Obama' is ontologically committed to the existence of Obama's head, even though Obama's head need not be assigned as a value to the variable 'x' for the theory to be true.

    Ontological commitment is determined solely by what must be within the range of bound variables for a theory's sentences to be true (Quine, 'On What There Is').

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