Carnap's framework pluralism implicitly privileges linguistic frameworks that carve reality at empirically testable joints, encoding verificationism as a meta-level ontological constraint.
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The idea that there are multiple equally valid ways to describe or organize reality, and we can switch between them depending on what we're trying to do.
Meta-level(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
A higher level of thinking where you analyze or talk about something itself, rather than using it directly—like discussing grammar rules rather than just speaking.
A rule or requirement about what kinds of things are allowed to exist or count as real.
verificationism(Used to motivate the inference from no empirical difference to no difference at all)
The view that a claim is meaningful only if it is empirically verifiable; applied here to ontology, it implies that indistinguishable objects cannot be genuinely distinct