It requires no metaphysical commitment to a God or any conception of human origin or nature to join in this game, just the hypothesis that nature can be interrogated and that nature is the final arbiter.
Commitment to an idea spurs action.
Fostering the professional commitment of nurses is helpful in encouraging commitment to an organization [ 19].
Specifically, we expected that the making of a commitment to save energy (Hypothesis 1) as well as receiving feedback on energy use (Hypothesis 2) would lead to changes in behavior as well as environmental concern compared to a control group.
That enthusiasm has then been fuelled further by the discovery that, at their best, both Buddhism and science share methodological similarities, including a commitment to testing hypotheses about the nature of reality by repeated experiment.
Thus, given the commitment to naturalism, the hypothesis that the brain is a kind of computer trafficking in representations in virtue of their syntactic properties is the basic idea of LOTH (and the AI vision of cognition).
Margulis's commitment to the Gaia hypothesis raised harsh reactions in the scientific community since mid 1970s, as told by Mann (1991): 'many regard autopoietic Gaia as an unscientific attempt to deify the biosphere' (p. 252).
According to Neil Buckholtz, director of the NIA Division of Neuroscience, the investment reflects a shift toward trying to prevent the disease before it ravages the brain, rather than reverse its effects, and a commitment to testing the amyloid hypothesis properly.
George has a strong commitment to pacifism, a conviction amounting to an identity-conferring commitment.
We have to choose a hypothesis to work with.
Benefits from martial arts uniforms, protection (H4: β = .30, p < .0001), and benefits of martial arts (H3b: β = .35, p < .0001), strongly affected commitment to martial arts, supporting hypotheses H4 and H5.
