1. Thomasson on Ontological Commitment & Parsimony Kareem Khalifa Philosophy Department Middlebury College

3. I. Introduction A.Reminder B.Key Terms C.Ockham vs. ordinary objects

4. II. Parsimony’s plausiblity

5. III. Counting dilemma

6. IV. The case for ordinary objects

7. V. Trivial transformations A.The language of refuge B.Thomasson vs. Quine C.The point of paraphrase

8. VI. Extraordinary objects? A.Hoverball objection B.Thomasson vs. hoverball

9. VII. The price of avoiding ordinary objects A.Revolutionary eliminativism B.Thomasson vs. revolutionary eliminativism

10. Recap