A defender of the quantifier account, however, can respond by noting that there is a distinction between ontological commitment to Ks and ontological commitment to the Ks; the quantifier account aims only to analyze the former. Indeed, it seems plausible to say (as noted in §1.3) that an ontological commitment to elephants carries with it an ontological commitment to mammals, just not an ontological commitment to the mammals. An ontological commitment to the Ks, on the quantifier account, can be understood as an ontological commitment to each and every particular K.