Practical commitment to a faith-proposition therefore could be a venture: there is no misguided 'doxastic voluntarism' in allowing this possibility.
The most likely obstacles might be financial: At a time when France is raising taxes and freezing spending to meet budget targets, an open-ended commitment to a potential financial sinkhole would seem to be a risky proposition.
It is a much tougher proposition when the call on Israel goes beyond humanitarian gestures, to the kind of confidence-building measure that would confirm the prime minister's commitment to a genuine two-state solution.
-- In 1963, President John Kennedy said Congress should "make a commitment... to the proposition that race has no place in American life or law". Was he right?
His flaws, though, fall within the norms of constitutional values and an unquestioned commitment to the proposition that no person is above the law.
Commitment to an idea spurs action.
To take (2), the more abstract description simply attributes that property of specifying a certain degree of commitment to the proposition to these sentences, for this is the definition of what it is to be a member of the category modalization (Halliday and Matthiessen 2014: 177).3 In the more delicate cases (4a).
Such accounts have a nice story to tell about the relationship between credential states and partial intentions they are species of the same genus, in the sense that they involve not full but partial commitment to the proposition or action in question.
Heil has also inveighed in a naturalistic spirit against incurring a commitment to propositions that are designed to have their own "built-in intentionality" whilst continuing to maintain that truth-making is an internal relation (2006: 240 3).
requires anti-nominalist commitments, an ontological commitment to propositions, and commitments to the expression relation (translation relations, an account of synonymy, etc).. Discourse pluralists requiring predicates to comply with (28) in order to count as truth-predicates must therefore be prepared to accommodate other claims that go along with (28) as a package-deal.
