Sentence examples for commitment to theory from inspiring English sources

Even single indicators can have identified measurement error variances (for example, if the single-indicated latent also causes several other latents) but here also the researcher should demonstrate their commitment to theory by resisting estimation of the single-indicator's measurement error variance.

To maintain neutrality, we will continue to apply ontological commitment to theories construed as sets of sentences, but with the understanding that, for the friend of propositions, the ontological commitment of sentences is just the ontological commitment of the propositions those sentences express.

Additionally, the constructive empiricist might insist that use of a theory need not entail a commitment to the theory's entire ontology.

Roush 2005, 149 186) Francis Bacon Baconn 1620, 70) said that allowing one's commitment to a theory to determine what one takes to be the epistemic bearing of observational evidence on that very theory is, if anything, even worse than ignoring the evidence altogether.

This commitment to the theory and practice of community politics has sustained the party throughout the turbulence of much of the postwar period, amid the revivals, the plateaux and the occasional flirtations with oblivion.

Pylyshyn (2002b §R5.3 , 2003b§7.4.3), despite his overarching commitment to description theory, concedes a great deal to Bartolomeo's position.

In this way, Aristotle's philosophy of being and substance, like much else in his philosophy, relies upon an antecedent commitment to his theory of categories.

But without further argument, or a commitment to a theory of sounds, it is difficult to state confidently the intrinsic features of sounds and thus whether they include spatial features.

Absent a prior commitment to picture theory, this seems quite sufficient to account for their spatial imagination abilities, and even their dreams (Kerr, Foulkes, & Schmidt, 1982; Thomas, 1987 §II.B.6; Kerr & Domhoff, 2004).

One might as well have as one's criterion of theory choice: "Choose true theories!" So, the idea of restricting ontological commitment to true theories is a non-starter.

I suggest that Newell's behaviorist methodology is incompatible with his commitment to building theories in terms of complex computational systems.