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Internal-external distinction

The internal–external distinction is a distinction used in philosophy to divide an ontology into two parts: an internal part consisting of a linguistic framework and observations related to that framework, and an external part concerning practical questions about the utility of that framework. This division was introduced by Rudolf Carnap in his work Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology.^[1] It was subsequently criticized at length by Willard v. O. Quine in a number of works,^[2]^[3] and was considered for some time to have been discredited. However, recently a number of authors have come to the support of some or another version of Carnap's approach.^[4]^[5]^[6]

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