Hofweber (2005) agrees that quantification in ordinary language is sometimes ontologically committing, but not always, and not when we quantify over abstract entities, such as numbers and properties, in ordinary (i.e., non-philosophical) contexts. Hofweber claims that there are two distinct readings of ordinary language quantifiers, readings that make different contributions to truth conditions and perform different communicative functions. One reading, which he calls the “domain conditions reading”, is tied to ontology: it places conditions on what exists in reality.  If I say “something fell on my head” (in a standard context), I am thereby committed to the existence of an object meeting the condition “fell on my head”. But, Hofweber argues, there is another reading of ordinary language quantifiers that is not tied to ontology, what he calls the “inferential role reading”. On this reading, the inference from F(t) to F(something) is trivially valid, even in cases where we do not take the term t to refer to anything in reality. On this reading, I can infer “there is someone whom I admire” from “I admire Sherlock Holmes” without my quantified assertion conveying any ontological commitment.