“Quine reached the point in the development of epistemology where there was realization of ontological (and also teleological) commitments to epistemological claims”—what do you mean by this?
gloss: Causal models of A->B have ontological commitments to the existence of all hypotheses consistent with the prediction A->B, chiefly that A and B ‘exist’ or are natural kinds in some sense, though other side effects may be present as well. Additionally, ontologies are not telos free.
“Quine reached the point in the development of epistemology where there was realization of ontological (and also teleological) commitments to epistemological claims”—what do you mean by this?
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-commitment/
gloss: Causal models of A->B have ontological commitments to the existence of all hypotheses consistent with the prediction A->B, chiefly that A and B ‘exist’ or are natural kinds in some sense, though other side effects may be present as well. Additionally, ontologies are not telos free.