This makes obvious that the truth of a quantified statement is ontologically relevant, and in fact ideally suited to make ontological commitment explicit, since we need entities to assign as the values of the variables.
This stance is not surprising, but it was the first time a sitting president made the commitment explicit.
What was most important about him was his commitment -- explicit in his speeches and implicit in the people he surrounded himself with -- to the very idea of civic duty.
Yet governments also stand behind their domestic pension funds.The commitment is explicit in the case of public-sector schemes.
A second, much more problematic set of Lukács' commitments becomes explicit in the writings between the 1930s and the 1950s.
Progress towards civility is more likely if Muslims, Christians, Jews, (and Buddhists and Hindus) are encouraged to enter 'the public square' with their commitments explicit, and see how much common ethical ground there in fact is.
Evolutionary explanations of social norms have the virtue of making their value commitments explicit and also of showing how other normative commitments (such as fair division in certain bargaining situations, or cooperation in the prisoner's dilemma) may be derived from the principled action of boundedly rational, self-interested agents.
Enjoining the theorist to "make all implicit ontological commitments explicit" does not solve the problem because the theorist may not know, and may be in no position to know, the implicit commitments of her theory.
The Quinean, then, simply asks that the commitment to universals be made explicit in the same way that the commitment to particulars is made explicit: by quantifying.
More significantly, it is no part of HS that facts about possible worlds themselves reduce to anything else; whereas both Almost-Lewis and Lewis are explicit in their commitment to this further claim.
The U.S. legal system, for instance, is explicit in its commitment to many forms of non-discrimination.
