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    It is not the case that The truthmaker account of ontological commitment has a problem with capturing implicit ontological commitment.

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    • 1.The truthmaker account identifies ontological commitments with entities whose existence is sufficient for the truth of the theory.
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    • 2.Implicit ontological commitments are not captured by sufficiency conditions alone.
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    • 3.The quantifier account also fails to capture implicit commitment, though for a different reason.
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