I'm with W.V.O. Quine, in his essay On What There Is, "To be is to be the value of a bound variable", if that helps at all.

Ontological relativism is all well and good, but ultimately you have to pick an ontology in order to function. Philosophical realism (accepting there is a reality independent of one's perception of it) seems to me to be the least intellectually compromised ontology. It also seems to be the one we are genetically predisposed to accept; it's certainly the ontology by which we instinctively lead our daily lives, such that anyone who genuinely acted as if they didn't believe in it would probably be regarded by most people as mentally ill in some way.

Subjectivism is an intellectual dead-end. It answers nothing, and closes off the possibility of even asking the important questions (since any answer is equally valid). It's the curse of contemporary intellectual life, turning us into relativistic zombies, unable to reason.

-- Ian