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Ontological commitment
In the philosophy of language and metaphysics, an ontological commitment is said to be necessary in order to make a statement in which the existence of one thing is presupposed or implied by asserting the existence of another. We are “committed” to the existence of the second thing, even though we may not have expected it, and may have intended to assert only the existence of the first.
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