Sentence examples for commitment to the view from inspiring English sources

A front-page news analysis article yesterday about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. gave an incorrect spelling in some copies for the surname of a Yale law professor who said Judge Alito did not show a commitment to the view that the executive branch can be held accountable before the courts.

The force of this criticism seems to rest on a prior empiricist commitment to the view that bias is epistemically bad.

Semantic nonfactualism, the non-cognitivist commitment to the view that moral judgments do not express propositions or predicate properties, rules out one simple way of explaining matters.

Descartes' rejection of the possibility of a vacuum followed from his commitment to the view that the essence of body was extension.

Besides commitment to the view that the cosmos as a whole is divine, pantheists as a general class hold no specific theory about the nature of that cosmos.

This is due to their support of the view or perhaps commitment to the view (on other grounds)—that space and time are independent of intuition in some sense.

If Arcesilaus did not defend the possibility of living without beliefs by advocating a positive theory of action, we need to find another way to explain his attested commitment to the views that nothing can be known and that one should not form beliefs.

Winslet stated that she had requested an apology to demonstrate her commitment to the views that she has always expressed regarding women's body issues, namely that women should accept their appearance with pride.

Rorty's commitment to the conversationalist view of knowledge must therefore be distinguished from subjectivism or relativism, which, Rorty argues, presuppose the very distinctions he seeks to reject.

Throughout her discussion, Cockburn maintains a commitment to the basic view that morality is founded in the nature of humans and God.

The mere fact that Davidson is arguing in favor of the cause-law principle does not itself entail a commitment to the Humean view of the content of the experience of singular events that invites the worry.