Advocates tend to treat truthmaker theory primarily as a guide to ontology, asking: To entities of what ontological categories are we committed as truthmakers of the propositions we accept as true?
"Everything that I dream and hoped for has come true," said the senior wide receiver Derrick Williams, who helped re-energize the program when he committed as the nation's No. 1 recruit.
He is as committed as I am".
That remains as true as ever.
In the past, while American true believers were kneeling in prayer and lighting incense candles to fanciful agreements with North Korea, Iran, Syria and their ilk, these rogue states were committing (as T.S. Eliot entitled his play) murder in the cathedral.
If Pain & Gain can be viewed as Bay's attempt at making a Coen brothers film, then Johnson acquits himself admirably as Bay's John Goodman: a fiercely committed true believer of a performer in the face of cinematic anarchy.
Margan is a perfectionist and is committed to remaining true to the region's strengths, such as its sémillon – Australia's unique dry white wine.
Real egalitarianism is not just about declaring your city to be a "sanctuary" and blandly committing to staying true to liberal values, as our mayor has done.
Should the state prosecute Eminem for verbally imagining slitting his ex-wife's throat in the rap song Kim, or take Ice Cube's lyrics about shooting an LA cop in the face in We Had to Tear this Mothafucka Up as true intent to commit a crime?
In particular, he argues that the ontological costs of theories positing necessary existents can be compared by considering, not the theories' actual commitments (which cannot be known prior to determining the truth of the theories), but by considering "what ontology we would regard a theory as implicitly committed to, were it true" (Peacock 2011: 93).
