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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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).