Carnap's tolerance principle permits multiple linguistic frameworks, and within a framework containing causal-conditional bridge laws, metaphysical terms can bear empirical consequences.
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A system of words, concepts, and rules we use to talk about and understand something—like how scientists use special language to describe atoms, or how accountants use specific terms to talk about money.
Metaphysical terms(abstract concepts that go beyond the physical world)
Words that refer to things beyond what we can directly observe or measure, like 'soul,' 'consciousness,' or 'existence'—things that seem real but aren't physical objects.
tolerance principle(Applied to material composition of objects across possible worlds)
A principle permitting that an object could have come into existence with some difference in its original material composition (e.g., with only a certain percentage of its actual original components).