Hence all those stories in which baffled extraterrestrial maidens frowningly query: "What is this word, 'kiss'?" Even the apparently asexual Spock finds himself driven by the "Pon Farr", a mating call that makes him moodier than a bedroom-sequestered teenager, the instinctive life's revenge on a cultural commitment to logic and reason.
Given his sudden commitment to logic, Gates may not survive long even in this lame-duck administration.
For Huxley though, this was intellectual inconsistency (the greatest of sins): how could he maintain his unshakeable commitment to logic and rationality alongside his clear understanding and experience of this other, equally legitimate aspect, of human thought?
This is what it means to be a benevolent dictator, and there are plenty of people around the world who disagree with his values, commitments, and logics.
In Hare's view, it is human weakness that is served better by "ought" than by "must", and we reveal our commitment to the logic of "must" in uses of "ought" that fall short of that logic, and yet constantly aspire to live up to it.
But insofar as the judgements clearly have different consistency conditions and involve different logical commitments the resulting logic must now include principles that allow differences in attitude type to matter to consistency and inconsistency.
The techniques utilised to work within them, as well as to obtain metamathematical results about them, also diverge in some respects from the classical tradition because of their commitment to intuitionistic logic.
These commitments defy the logic of cost and benefit, investment and return.
Hempel's commitments to extensional logic and to Humean constraints would lead him to endorse an account of laws that was strongly influenced by Goodman and to embrace a pragmatic account that was both epistemically and contextually-dependent.
A first objection is that the ontological commitment of second-order logic is higher than the ontological commitment of first-order logic.
