Meta Ontology

This paper will focus on a philosophically significant construction whose semantics brings together two important notions in Kit Fine's philosophy, the notion of truthmaking and the notion of a variable embodiment, or its extension, namely what I call a `variable object'. The analysis of the construction this paper will develop will be based on an account of clausal complements of intensional verbs that is of more general interest, based on truthmaking and the notion of a cognitive product, such as a promise or a belief, rather than that of a proposition.