Ontology Reduced

"A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity . It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word - 'Everything' - and everyone will accept this answer as true. However, this is merely to say that there is what there is. there remains room for disagreement over cases; and so the issue has stayed alive down the centuries."

Willard Van Orman Quine, From a Logical Point of View