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    Carnap's claimed ontological neutrality is a sham. — Carmelics
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    Carnap's claimed ontological neutrality is a sham.

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    • 1.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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    • 2.Verificationism is not a neutral methodological tool but a substantive metaphysical thesis about what kinds of entities can meaningfully exist, as Quine argues in 'Two Dogmas.'
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    • 3.A position that embeds a contested metaphysical thesis at the level of framework selection cannot coherently claim neutrality about ontology at any level.
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    • 1.Carnap's internal/external distinction itself presupposes that reality divides neatly into framework-relative and framework-independent questions, which is a substantive ontological thesis.
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    • 2.Thomasson and other neo-Carnapians acknowledge that the very act of individuating linguistic frameworks requires prior commitments about what kinds of things can serve as referents.
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    • 3.Any meta-ontological architecture that must individuate frameworks by their referential domains has already taken a stand on what the world contains before the first pragmatic decision is made.
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    • 1.Carnap holds that external questions about which framework to adopt are answered by pragmatic decisions based on efficiency, fruitfulness, and utility with respect to the aims of discourse.
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    • 2.If the underlying aim of discourse is predicting the flow of sense data, then sense data are presupposed as the ultimate furniture of the world.
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    • 3.Presupposing sense data as the ultimate furniture of the world is a substantive anti-realist metaphysical commitment.
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    Not that Carnap really is abandoning metaphysics: this erstwhile opponent of metaphysics is really a brother metaphysician with a rival theory of his own, as F. H. Bradley might have said. Thus the main import of the later ‘Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology’ is the dismissal of ontological worries as pseudo-problems by dint of the (highly contentious) distinction between ‘internal’ questions, to be settled by the rules of the framework—of mathematics, ordinary ‘thing’ talk or whatever—and ‘ext
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