Metaphysics - Carnap on Ontology

This video outlines Rudolf Carnap's deflationary approach to ontological questions, presented in his article "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology", then discusses some challenges to the Carnapian approach.

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0:00 - Introduction
2:48 - Linguistic frameworks
6:27 - Internal and external questions
12:33 - Pragmatic-external vs factual-external
17:52 - Objects, properties, etc
25:48 - Fictionalism
32:41 - Conflicting frameworks
41:05 - Norms for selecting frameworks
47:34 - The regress problem