It is a set of ontological commitments, i.e., an answer to the question: In what terms should I think about the world?

Even an indexical phrase like "This chair" does not transmit an "ontological commitment" on each occasion of its use.

For example, if we are proposed a philosophical theory, we can never definitely characterize the ontological commitments of it.

One must have ontological commitments to mathematical entities.

One must have ontological commitments to mathematical entities that are assumed to exist.

The result is often a model consistent with both the ontological commitments and aspects of the new ideas presented.

Successful conceptual change on this view requires strategic changes in the interfering ontological commitments.

Agreements about the objects and relations involved in software modules, interfaces, or knowledge bases are called ontological commitments.

One says the legal doctrine has an ontological commitment to non-singular individuals.

That is, there is an ontological commitment to such external objects.