The phrase "a commitment to the primacy of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the importance or priority of a particular principle, value, or concept in a formal context.
Example: "The organization has a commitment to the primacy of human rights in all its operations."
Alternatives: "a dedication to the superiority of" or "an adherence to the precedence of".
Nevertheless, both Descartes and Spinoza provide a starting point for their metaphysical doctrines with their conceptions of God, a starting point that is already infected with idealistic elements if (ontological) idealism is understood as implying a commitment to the primacy or at least the unavoidability and irreducibility of mental items in the constitution and order of things in general.
But although Paivio (1986) explicitly claims to be an Empiricist, this seems to be mainly a way of indicating his commitment to the primacy of the experimental method in science, as opposed to "rationalistic" methods like computer simulation.
Popper was a somewhat paradoxical man, whose theoretic commitment to the primacy of rational criticism was counterpointed by hostility towards anything that amounted to less than total acceptance of his own thought, and in Britain — as had been the case in Vienna — he became increasingly an isolated figure, though his ideas continued to inspire admiration.
"I want to be certain," he said in an interview yesterday, "that my successors and their successors do not forget the commitment to the primacy of the individual investor as being central to the success of our markets".
At the request of Lavater, he wrote an open letter to Fichte (Jacobi, 1799) in which he restated all his objections to philosophy in general and the new idealism in particular, and reaffirmed his commitment to the primacy of faith.
This core principle must rest on some commitment to the primacy of the individual aspects of the human condition -- separate bodies, silent thought, etc. Otherwise it would be completely arbitrary, right?
China's commitment to the primacy of state sovereignty means that it will oppose the trend towards transnational governance driven by global problems such as climate change which will require global solutions.
Dr. Chen Pichler said that protesters doubted Dr. Fernandes's commitment to upholding the primacy of American Sign Language on campus, and that the next person selected would have to be strongly committed to reinforcing what is often referred to as Deaf culture — with a capital D — at Gallaudet.
RL: I come back to the primacy of feeling.
The primacy of offence, they argue, should now give way to the primacy of defence.Insiders admit that this is going too far.
