Abstract

This chapter explores how ontological pluralism should be formulated. We will see that similar issues arise to those that we saw in the formulation of truth pluralism, and that the models from the truth pluralism debate are applicable here as well. It begins by discussing in more detail the role of quantifiers in the existence debate, before turning to ontological pluralism itself. Strong ontological pluralism is examined, and the extent to which it suffers from analogues of the mixing problems we saw in the last chapter is evaluated, before other forms of ontological pluralism are looked at. After examining McDaniel’s (2009, 2010a) formulation, a form of determination pluralism for existence is developed, and then the question of whether existence is abundant or sparse is discussed.

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