There was some trepidation about price increases, especially once the recession took hold, but it turned out consumers who are committed to certain magazines needed little persuading, said Michael Clinton, executive vice president of Hearst Magazines.
But believing and being committed to certain things isn't enough.
It is plausible to believe that certain basic rules prohibiting non-consensual harming of innocent persons, or protecting certain minimal rights of bodily integrity, must be justifiable to all members of the constituency of public reason, provided we assume those members are committed to certain minimal ideals of freedom and equality (Cohen 2010, 272 277).
In a famous theorem, John Bell (1964) demonstrated that granted some plausible assumptions, any local model of the EPR/B experiment is committed to certain inequalities about the probabilities of measurement outcomes, 'the Bell inequalities,' which are incompatible with the quantum-mechanical predictions.
I am committed to certain political beliefs.
Rather, we also seem to be committed to a certain modal structure in our ethical commitments.
We are committed to a certain amount of future climate change even if we curtail our emissions quickly.
"News Corporation maintains its total support to the ongoing work of the MSC and is committed to making certain that legitimate journalism is vigorously pursued in both the public interest and in full compliance with the law".
However, as we saw above, whether it is a skeptical argument or a pedestrian case that is at issue, contextualists are committed to a certain 'error theory'.
In particular, she tries to show that Searle is committed to describing certain cases (where one is under an illusion that one is acting with someone) in a way that is at odds with his rejection of anti-individualism.
