gloss: Causal models of A->B have ontological commitments to the existence of all hypotheses consistent with the prediction A->B, chiefly that A and B ‘exist’ or are natural kinds in some sense, though other side effects may be present as well. Additionally, ontologies are not telos free.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ontological-commitment/
gloss: Causal models of A->B have ontological commitments to the existence of all hypotheses consistent with the prediction A->B, chiefly that A and B ‘exist’ or are natural kinds in some sense, though other side effects may be present as well. Additionally, ontologies are not telos free.