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For Carnap, different linguistic frameworks are incommensurable.
There is no theoretical basis for deciding between any two linguistic frameworks.
For Carnap, theories with differing ontological commitments are ipso facto couched within different linguistic frameworks.
Carnap invites us to propose various linguistic frameworks for scientific inquiry.
The conceptual relativity we have been discussing has its roots in Carnap's views about linguistic frameworks.
But the question presupposes, in effect, that the notion of "all linguistic frameworks" is meaningful, and there is no reason why Carnap would accept that.
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Prior to the nineteenth century, Moore writes, those trying to make sense of the weather "had no linguistic framework to scientifically explain what they saw".
What is true or false is always relative to a conceptual, cultural, or linguistic framework.
For Carnap, an internal question is a question that is asked within a particular linguistic framework.
When interpreted internally, the question was to be answered relative to a linguistic framework.
When existence questions are interpreted externally, they purport to be about "reality" independent of any particular linguistic framework.
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