Sentence examples for commitments of the sort from inspiring English sources

It would follow that (18) does not incur any additional ontological commitments of the sort that can be incurred by singular first-order quantifiers.

A possible solution would be to claim that joint commitments of the sort that Gilbert envisages are a special kind of collective intention, and that they presuppose more basic forms of collective intentionality, which are not joint commitments of the Gilbertian sort (Schmid 2005).

The phrase "Keep working to shut down" falls short of an iron-clad commitment of the sort that Obama repeatedly made on the campaign trail when he first ran for President.

In order to get from the actual conclusion to the desired one, we would in addition have to assume that all ontological commitments are of the sort incurred by singular first-order quantifiers.

Theories that postulate or prove them need to be supplemented with specific further ontologically committal postulates before incurring commitment to the sort of entities whose broad logical behavior is captured by a single-abstraction identity principle.

But commitments of this sort cannot bind future governments.

But this conclusion falls short of the argument's desired conclusion that (18) does not incur any additional ontological commitments of any sort.

I have never lived in a hotel for more than a week at a time, but I think of myself as a traveler--one who's never happier than when contemplating where he will be tomorrow, away from friends that frustrate, commitments of any sort.

Common sense morality seems to understand us as having special obligations to those to whom we stand in some sort of special relationship, e.g., our friends, our family members, our colleagues, our fellow citizens, and those to whom we have made promises or commitments of some sort.

He is a big fan of the sort of military commitments that enabled Britain, for example, to restore peace to Sierra Leone in early 2002.

This argues for a healthy debate about the level and pace of increase, an attempt to coordinate with at least the other larger cities in Southern California, and a commitment to developing the sort of regulatory mechanisms that can make sure that workers benefit and good businesses are rewarded for obeying the law.