Once one accepts that a "reality" predicate is needed to characterize ontological commitment, a puzzle about the logic of ontological commitment admits of a natural solution.
In a phone chat today, I asked Michael Replogle, the founder of the transportation and development institute, to characterize this commitment.
Subversive might not be the right word with which to characterize his commitment to his art, his muse, his hip flask and the Big No, as in no to the straight and narrow, no to the clean and tidy.
But, however the relation is precisely characterized, the natural question to put to Jackson is: why not use that relation, in place of modal entailment, to characterize ontological commitment?
"He's got most of his professional career as well as his net worth invested in CMGI," says Raymond James associate analyst Phil Benyola in St .Petersburg, Fla. "It's fair to characterize his commitment to CMGI as 'til death do we part".
But even supposing a semantics for such a counterfactual relation could be given, the natural question to put to Peacock is: why not use that relation, in place of modal entailment, to characterize ontological commitment?
The use of tfFACS to characterize lineage commitment in a systematic step wise fashion will provide inroads into understanding the molecular nature of in vitro derived cellular populations.
Dedication to discovery characterizes our commitment to promoting mental health and the improved understanding, treatment, and prevention of mental illness.
leadership until such time as their word becomes their bond, characterized by commitment, credibility and constancy," he said.
She characterized her commitment to economic opportunity as an outgrowth of her family's history, citing her grandfather's rise from immigrant laborer to owner of a small business.
Her career as a gifted teacher, a compassionate guidance counselor and assistant examiner in charge of counseling and school psychology at the NYC Board of Examiners characterized her commitment to the importance of education and the value of skilled counseling for children in need of help.
