We could relativize the notion of ontological commitment to languages; but given that reality itself, for Hirsch, isn't ontologically structured, none of these relativized notions of ontological commitment would be getting at something of ontological significance (including the one that gave ontological commitment relative to ordinary language, and ordinary language quantifiers).
However, past work has precluded the segregation of neural activity on trials where a commitment was made, relative to those where commitment was deferred into the future.
This approach thus allowed us to model the factors that drive everyday economic commitments, and to measure how brain activity differed when commitments were made relative to when they were deferred to a later time.
"We are pleased that commitments will be honored relative to Acorn's work to help keep America's working families facing foreclosure in their homes," Mr. Kettenring said.
But by making the Christian commitment to human dignity relative to other political aims, Ryan can no longer speak of "moral relativism" as the defining threat of our time.
I also asked each executive to rate his or her level of commitment to their enterprise, relative to other aspects of their lives, on a scale of 1-10.
In the absence of tBid activation (Fig. 3a), 2SE resulted in a higher and faster cellular commitment to mitophagy (blue) relative to WT, while the 2SA mutant only induced a very weak response.
On similar grounds, Bilgrami argues that our agency, relative to our commitments, ensures that we will not err in self-ascribing a commitment.
And not investing in libraries and librarians shows an unwillingness to honor commitments she has already made relative to International Baccalaureate programs as those for the gifted and talented.
