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    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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    Key Terms

    Individuating(as used in metaphysics)
    The process of identifying what makes one thing different from another thing—what allows us to pick out one specific object instead of lumping it together with everything else.
    Linguistic frameworks(as tools for investigation and understanding)
    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.
    Prior commitments(in epistemology and philosophy of language)
    Earlier claims or beliefs that someone has stated they believe, which can later be changed or taken back.
    Referents(as used in logic and semantics)
    The actual things or objects that a word or term points to or stands for in the real world.

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    Thomasson(The statement refers to her specific framework for understanding existence)
    Amie Thomasson is a contemporary philosopher who studies what exists and how different things depend on each other; she's known for developing systematic ways to think about what's real.
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
    neo-Carnapians(as a school of philosophical thought)
    Philosophers who follow or build upon the ideas of Rudolf Carnap, a 20th-century thinker who argued that many philosophical disagreements come from using different linguistic frameworks (different ways of talking about things).

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