  quite a more broad ontology, and is just playing it on the safe side.
    A lot of theories aren't that specific about their ontologies, and
    it is only through practice and interpretation and a lot of time
    that the ontological commitments of the theory get fixed (largely
    by tacit means).

Pursuing the analogous point about the language in which the theory
is expressed, I would say that even if the language (cum ideal POV)
embodies ontological assumptions, they are not always as fixed as
they m