Frondizi's commitment to that thesis is explicit: he concludes that based on the evidence, only 10% of philosophy 'as such' in Latin America is original.
The deepest and most complex reason for behaviorism's decline in influence is its commitment to the thesis that behavior can be explained without reference to non-behavioral mental (cognitive, representational, or interpretative) activity.
He was thus in a position to explain the Academics' apparent commitment to the theses that assent is irrational and knowledge is unattainable.
More precisely, differing views about moral motivation involve commitment to particular theses which have been thought to bear on questions about moral semantics and the nature of morality.
One worry about this strategy is that one might take a mark of ethical realism to be commitment to a truthmaker thesis, according to which ethical truths are metaphysically explained by (or grounded in) the patterns of instantiation of ethical properties.
Here is an example of the way in which intuitions about justification can drive one's account of evidence, given a commitment to the Evidentialist thesis that changes in what an individual is justified in believing always reflect changes in her total evidence.
Moreover, the thesis that individuals have their haecceities essentially is often taken as a prerequisite for a commitment to haecceitism, since the thesis sometimes called "extreme haecceitism" holds that haecceities are the only essential properties of individuals aside from perfectly general properties instantiated by all entities (e.g., being self-identical).
Two distinctive aspects of the rationalist project are (a) its commitment to the modal rationalist thesis that we have apriori access to the space of metaphysical possibility and (b) its commitment to an apriori aspect of meaning that can be captured with the 2D modal framework.
which is a confused version of (1), or a confused version of (2), or, if unconfused, signals commitment to Meinongianism, i.e., the thesis that there are things/facts that do not exist.
Perhaps the connection is grounded in some such philosophers' previous commitment to the objectivity of science, together with their thesis that science is the model for philosophy.
