The phrase "a practical commitment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a serious and realistic dedication to a cause, project, or goal.
Example: "The organization made a practical commitment to reducing its carbon footprint by implementing sustainable practices."
Alternatives: "a realistic dedication" or "a tangible promise."
This "humanitarian revolution" underlies the decline of violence since the 18th century, the Enlightenment values developing there directly precipitating a practical commitment to our shared humanity.
For the next round of talks to be a success, argues Mitchell Reiss, a former head of policy planning in the Bush State Department and now at William and Mary College, there needs to be a practical commitment to sustain the dialogue through working groups that could quietly disentangle these issues.Meanwhile, the resumption of talks is a vindication of the six-party framework.
Whereas he had formally been torn between, on the one hand, a practical commitment to the moral improvement of humanity and, on the other, a theoretical commitment to "intelligible fatalism," he found in the Critical philosophy a way of reconciling his "head" and "heart" in a system that could meet the highest intellectual standards without requiring him to sacrifice his belief in human freedom.
In 2015, David Hasemyer and Bob Simison of Inside Climate News detailed how Exxon's public support of a carbon tax has never been matched by a practical commitment to backing a carbon tax politically.
For Wallace (2011: 326), "blame carries with it a kind of practical commitment to critical self-scrutiny", a commitment that the hypocritical blamer fails to live up to.
Practical commitment to a faith-proposition therefore could be a venture: there is no misguided 'doxastic voluntarism' in allowing this possibility.
However, the high level of religiosity shown by the Chilean population is inconsistent with the low frequency of periodic attendance in religious ceremonies (21%) (Adimark-CfK 2007), which suggests an ideological rather than practical commitment to religion.
Now, whether practical commitment to the truth of a given faith-proposition does or does not venture beyond adequate evidential support will be relative to assumptions about (a) where the level of evidential support required for 'adequacy' should be set, and (b) just how firm and decisive propositional faith-commitment needs to be.
Buddhist thought and practice are said to have emerged out of sustained practical commitment to discovering and nullifying the roots of human suffering.
A study done in Finland established that GE students are a special group within medical students who have greater theoretical and practical commitment to their studies and strong work life orientation as compared to students joining medical school after high school (Kronqvist et al. 2007).
The special role of faith-propositions It may be argued (again, by Bayesians, for example) that once practical commitment to the truth of propositions is recognised as a matter of degree, there are no possible circumstances where 'the evidence does not decide', and so no occasion for faith as doxastic venture.
