Complex sentence: Meta-ontology is a term of recent origin first used by Inwagen in analyzing Quine's critique of Carnap's analytic/synthetic distinction, raising the question of what techniques can be brought to bear in judging an ontology.
Split into simpler sentences: Meta-ontology is a term of recent origin first used by Inwagen in a discussion of difference between the views of Quine and Carnap. Inwagen exemplified meta-ontology by analyzing Quine's critique of Carnap's analytic/synthetic distinction, raising the question of what techniques can be brought to bear in judging an ontology.