There is in such accounts a question of what it exactly consists in to make a commitment or undertaking to the truth of a proposition.
This conventional nature of belief in value incommensurability in Raz's account raises a question for some authors about its robustness as an account of value incommensurability.
They met Miss Lawson, head of publicity for the Show, who gave a rather sketchy account of a question program they are planning, introducing them to a Mr. Pierre Marquis.
They met Miss Lawson, head of publicity for the Show, who gave them a rather sketchy account of a question program they are planning, introducing them to Mr. Pierre Marquis.
This partially epistolary novel provides a secular account of a question more often posed by faith: If God showed up in disguise, would the faithful live up to their professed values, or would the encounter reveal a baser nature?
Further, if being con-specific is key on Searle's account, a natural question arises as to what circumstances would justify us in attributing understanding (or consciousness) to extra-terrestrial aliens who do not share our biology?
Even people with their own accounts face a question: Should they reveal their passwords to their partners?
Mr. Mullins cited a news account to raise a question about whether the department's longstanding chief of Internal Affairs had participated in the practice by voiding a summons given to the chief surgeon.
Lloyds TSB, the country's biggest provider of current accounts, yesterday left a question mark hanging over the future of free banking as it become the latest bank to report record profits for 2006.
After Mr. Craig, a conservative Republican, gave a long, detailed account, Mr. Lauer posed a question that seemed to dismiss the senator's entire story.
Whether such a definition is acceptable as a general account of identity is a question that raises philosophical issues too complex to be discussed here; they are substantially those raised by the principle of the identity of indiscernibles, best known for its exposition in the 17th century by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
