Sentence examples for committed existence from inspiring English sources

Still, "The Punk Singer" fascinatingly traces the evolution of a woman who once sang, "I'm your worst nightmare come to life" in her youth, was hated at a formative age for all the wrong reasons and now has forged a quiet but committed existence as an ailing revolutionary.

He laid great store on logic not being committed to the existence of anything, being ontologically neutral: no existence statement is a theorem of any of his systems.

Mary's belief is strange, but general for all that, so we can report it without being committed to the existence of the Present King of France.

Indeed, all parties agree that figurative language can fail to be ontologically committing; one can assert, truly, that she has butterflies in her stomach without thereby being committed to the existence of butterflies.

Being committed to the existence of 'those cats' (while adverting to Mr. Furrikens, Chairman Meow, and Magnificat) is not an additional commitment over and above the commitment to Mr. Furrikens, Chairman Meow, and Magnificat.

And that, as we have just seen, is what Russell was trying to do, even though it was doomed to failure from the start, on account of its being committed to the existence of a different series of the 'same' numbers within each type.

To achieve that, nominalists in the philosophy of mathematics forge interconnections with metaphysics (whether mathematical objects do exist), epistemology (what kind of knowledge of these entities we have), and philosophy of science (how to make sense of the successful application of mathematics in science without being committed to the existence of mathematical entities).

By appealing to analysis (1′′), it follows that there is a way to deny (1) without being committed to the existence of a present King of France, namely by changing the scope of the negation operator and thereby accepting that "It is not the case that there exists a present King of France who is bald" is true.

The ego able to contemplate what is within it ponders what lies outside …There are some objects that we can contemplate without being logically committed to the existence of anything other than the ego.

But, the proponent of this theory is committed to the existence of properties being posterior to God's causing them to exist.

That is to say, given that we have certain beliefs, do these beliefs already bring with them a rational commitment to an answer to such questions as 'Are there numbers?' If our beliefs bring with them a rational commitment to an answer to an ontological question about the existence of certain entities then we can say that we are committed to the existence of these entities.