The method of paraphrasing away apparent ontological commitments is a familiar tool for trimming one's ontology. Even so, I argue that aiming to avoid commitment via paraphrase is unjustified. The reason is the standard motivations for paraphrase rest on implicit yet faulty principles regarding ontological categories and categorization- or so I argue. These results also provide indirect support for a permissivist approach to ontology.

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释义、类别和本体论

解释掉明显的本体论承诺的方法是一种熟悉的修整本体论的工具。即便如此，我认为通过释义来避免承诺是不合理的。原因是释义的标准动机依赖于关于本体论类别和分类的隐含但错误的原则——或者我认为。这些结果也为本体论的宽容主义方法提供了间接支持。