Beneath our commitment to concepts such as "participation" must lie a genuine empowerment of those people we serve to shape their own services, shape the organisation, and speak through us.
According to the Fregean tradition, which connects the notion of ontological commitment to that of a semantic value, this will mean that plural expressions incur commitment to plural entities, much as predicates incur commitment to concepts.
For one thing, just as Frege took singular terms to be a vehicle for commitment to objects, he took incomplete expressions to be a vehicle of commitment to concepts and (more generally) functions.
Boolos suggests a defense for Frege with respect to this particular aspect of his logic, namely, to reinterpret (by paraphrasing) the second-order quantifiers so as to avoid commitment to concepts.
Why is it that when these so-called pro-family spokespeople are asked to comment on the issue of "family," they make statements which makes one not only question their actual commitment to the concept of "family," but in the case of Earll, the concept of "common sense".
Placing an extra unnecessary obstacle into the process suggests that the minister's commitment to the concept is half-hearted, at best.
It requires a particular level of commitment to the concept of living with other people, and associated skills of diplomacy and tolerance.
They should declare their commitment to the concept that the American-Chinese partnership should have a wider mission than national self-interest.
In Manchester, in his first speech of the new parliament, Osborne will underline his personal commitment to the concept of city devolution saying Greater Manchester will be entitled to elect its first mayor in 2017.
As an indication of their commitment to the concept, the majority of these stakeholders have chipped in with funding to help support the organization's mandate.
His commitment to the concept of the unity of Christian churches took him to the Vatican in 1973 to meet Pope Paul VI, the first Coptic Pope for 1,500 years to go to Rome.
