The phrase 'commitment to a theory' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an individual's dedication or devotion to a specific idea or belief. For example, "Her lifelong commitment to the theory of evolution was unwavering."
But without further argument, or a commitment to a theory of sounds, it is difficult to state confidently the intrinsic features of sounds and thus whether they include spatial features.
Roush 2005, 149 186) Francis Bacon Baconn 1620, 70) said that allowing one's commitment to a theory to determine what one takes to be the epistemic bearing of observational evidence on that very theory is, if anything, even worse than ignoring the evidence altogether.
Such common turns of phrase should not be taken to indicate commitment to a correspondence theory in any serious sense.
So why, one may ask, do so many Augustinians, despite their commitment to a retributive theory of punishment, insist that God could justly condemn even infants on account of their supposedly inherited guilt?
Behind the Augustinian understanding of hell lies a commitment to a retributive theory of punishment, according to which the primary purpose of punishment is to satisfy the demands of justice or, as some might say, to balance the scales of justice.
And the Augustinian commitment to such a theory is hardly surprising.
Familiar problems with verificationism include its susceptibility to epistemic skepticism, its commitment to an implausible coherence theory of truth, and specific difficulties about how to confirm or disconfirm judgments about the non-immediate past or future.
The commitment is "a commitment to the further confrontation of new phenomena within the framework of that theory, a commitment to a research programme, and a wager that all relevant phenomena can be accounted for without giving up that theory" (1980, 88).
This might seem to be expressing commitment to a very deferential moral theory one according to which each agent should just do what she believes is right.
Ultimately, the adoption of this theory reflects his commitment to an internalist epistemology, which he develops at length in his Investigation of Cognitive Support.
Additionally, the constructive empiricist might insist that use of a theory need not entail a commitment to the theory's entire ontology.
