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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

To claim that a type of proposition has ontological import is to claim that its truth or falsity depends on whether or not its terms exist. If all types of propositions have ontological import, then "All unicorns have one horn." isn't true. Neither is "All unicorns are imaginary."

For whatever reason, philosophers have decided to use the word "ontological" when they need to make claims about what really exists. But the word they could have chosen is "ontic". It's much prettier and much more simple. And it makes the universe seems more austere, less syllabic, which it is.

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As austere as it is, though, qualia do exist. Trust me.