Justice Scalia, who shares with Justice Thomas a commitment to interpreting the Constitution in accord with its original meaning, parted ways with his usual ally on this point.
His failure to give a consistently negative answer to question (2) lands him in flat contradiction with his official commitment to interpreting sacred texts in exactly the same way as profane texts (for, of course, as he indeed himself implies, in interpreting profane texts we may not assume that the texts are throughout true and therefore also self-consistent).
"It's frustrating because it should be a golden age of planetary exploration because there's so much data that's coming in, but what's missing is the commitment of funding to interpret the measurements," says Jim Bell, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University and a science team member on the twin Mars rover mission.
As in the case of Moore it is tempting to interpret his commitment to a timeless world of universals as pointing if not to an endorsement at least to a toleration of a position that is difficult to distinguish from some version of an ontological idealism.
So, it is the nominalist's burden to show how to interpret mathematics without the commitment to the existence of mathematical objects.
Further, Bradley does uniformly reject the reality of external relations, and it is easy, though not logically inevitable, to interpret this as a commitment to the doctrine of internality.
We were all looking at the same reality – a pledge of commitment, honesty, companionship, support, all that – but I chose to interpret it differently. .
(Strawson 1994, 1) It is this kind of prior commitment to a world view that makes it so tempting to interpret Russell as a materialist.
"Partnering with Community Works underscores the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service's commitment to preserve and interpret our Nation's historical and cultural foundations for future generations," said Superintendent Shirley McKinney.
Sometimes this is probably true the lowest-common-denominator approach can mean few commitments are made, and those that are signed up to are difficult to interpret.
