 For another example of a reductionist solution, Frank Jackson holds that one can assent to “Mr. Pickwick is Dickens’ most famous character” without an ontological commitment to fictitious characters in general and Mr. Pickwick in particular. For, according to Jackson’s de-ontologization strategy, object language sentences are ontologically neutral. Ontological commitment comes in only at the meta-language level, for instance, if we would claim that the name “Mr. Pickwick” denotes Dickens’s most famous character or that the predicate “a character in Dickens” applies to something. (See Jackson 1980.)