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by westoncb 2936 days ago
Seems like from that it's just framework construction. It may have the same internal structure as an ontology, but to say the statements have any external correspondence (to the metaphysical; I'm using 'external' loosely) would require an extra step.

I can set an ontology where `thingamajiggers` are the only entity (so I guess the only truth condition for '∃x P(x)' is that P(x) is a thingamajigger), and I guess if you want to you can say I'm doing metaphysics at that point, though it does seem a little pointless to do so.