Sentence examples for commitment to logic from inspiring English sources

Hence all those stories in which baffled extraterrestrial maidens frowningly query: "What is this word, 'kiss'?" Even the apparently asexual Spock finds himself driven by the "Pon Farr", a mating call that makes him moodier than a bedroom-sequestered teenager, the instinctive life's revenge on a cultural commitment to logic and reason.

Given his sudden commitment to logic, Gates may not survive long even in this lame-duck administration.

For Huxley though, this was intellectual inconsistency (the greatest of sins): how could he maintain his unshakeable commitment to logic and rationality alongside his clear understanding and experience of this other, equally legitimate aspect, of human thought?

In Hare's view, it is human weakness that is served better by "ought" than by "must", and we reveal our commitment to the logic of "must" in uses of "ought" that fall short of that logic, and yet constantly aspire to live up to it.

The techniques utilised to work within them, as well as to obtain metamathematical results about them, also diverge in some respects from the classical tradition because of their commitment to intuitionistic logic.

We find that these mid-tier firms selectively adopt practices related to the commercial logic, while retaining a principal commitment to the trustee logic.

Ms. Silvers and her dances would be offputtingly inscrutable but for their buried humor and intense commitment to some inner logic.

But Osama bin Laden spoke to everyone, including many millions of Muslims who admired his analysis of world affairs but never themselves developed the courage and commitment to follow his logic to its lethal end.

It is difficult or even impossible to map the genre to the genres modern logic, but issues involved include at least counterfactual and per impossibile reasoning, and dynamic commitment to remain logically consistent.

Hempel's commitments to extensional logic and to Humean constraints would lead him to endorse an account of laws that was strongly influenced by Goodman and to embrace a pragmatic account that was both epistemically and contextually-dependent.

Systematic commitment to new production logics for new housing prototypes and large-scale urban developments allow us to think anew about sunsetting the decades-long foray into suburban ways of life.