Sentence examples for commitment to the views from inspiring English sources

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.

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 nominations committee proposed an African American candidate with a slate of editorial board members who collectively presented a strong emphasis on qualitative and/or postmodernist research, sustained attention to issues of hierarchy and stratification, and a commitment to the view that the pursuit of scientific objectivity and precision was a mistaken way to understand the social world.

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

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.

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.

Here, though, is where other characteristically Mīmāṃsaka commitments significantly come into play chiefly, the commitment to the view that the Vedic texts are, like language itself, eternal or primordial.

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.

On this conception there is no commitment to the view that vision is for the guidance of action, that vision constitutively has something to do with adapting animal behavior to the spatial layout of the distal environment (Noë 2004 18 199).