It is here that fictionalism comes to the rescue: if we suppose that the utterances in question are made in a fictional spirit, then eliminativist antirealism about (say) mathematics does not commit ordinary speakers of massive error.
Beyond that, it is not easy for externalists to provide a satisfactory account of lexical semantic competence, as they are committed to regarding speakers' beliefs and abilities (e.g., recognitional abilities) as essentially irrelevant to reference determination, hence to meaning.
It seemed implausible that the very activity of prescribing universally should commit a speaker to a substantive ethical position, let alone one so distinctive.
According to the former definition, an illocutionary act S1 commits a speaker to another illocutionary act S2 iff it is not possible to perform S1 without performing S2.
It must express that attitude towards lying so that the premises commit the speaker to the attitude expressed by the conclusion.
While the [a] sentences would normally commit a speaker to the claim that Pedro has a donkey, the same does not hold for the [b] sentences.
Here [5a] is embedded in the scope of a negation operator and a modal operator, respectively, and it appears that these sentences commit a speaker to the truth of [5b] just as much as [5a] does.
"The one thing that I committed to both speaker Boehner and leader McConnell is that I'm not going to judge ideas based on whether they're Democratic or Republican, I'm going to be judging them based on whether or not they work," Obama said.
Section 7 is committed to discussing speaker identification algorithm and the experiments based on each of LTRSPHMM1s, LTRSPHMM2s, CSPHMM1s, and CSPHMM2s.
With the House Speaker committed to this plan, we've had the CBO return the low grade that was widely predicted.
