What to do? Of course, this result could be avoided by populating domains of quantification with centaurs, unicorns, and all manner of fictional being. That would allow one to charge a profligate opponent with an ontological commitment to centaurs, and a distinct ontological commitment to unicorns—but only by taking on these very same ontological commitments in the metalanguage. For Quine, at least, the cure is as bad as the disease.