The Question of Ontology

Abstract

Abstract Philosophers ask ‘do numbers exist?’, ‘do chairs and tables exist?’, ‘do elementary particles exist?’. But what are they asking when they ask such questions? There is an answer to this meta-question that derives from Quine [1984]and is commonly accepted in contemporary ontology (it is accepted in one form or another by all of the other contributors to the present volume,for example).

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