Similarly, if I introduce a predicate 'whish' stipulating that it expresses a biological kind property that applies to whales and fish but excludes rabbits and rhinoceri, I introduce an empty predicate; and sentences containing 'whish' should not thereby be ontologically committed to any biological kinds.
Using these high-level desiderata, Sterelny articulates a series of nine conditions, called the Hoyle-conditions after Sterelny's thought experiment: a vertical, i.e., "only to offspring and from parents" (C1), simultaneous (C2), and unbiased transmission (C3) of components (or replicators) that are irreversibly committed to their biological role as replicators (C4).
One critical function of these is to ensure that cells do not become committed to a biological process without input on the fitness of mitochondria, risking a discrepancy between the metabolic demands of the cell and the ability of the mitochondria to meet them.
F-MARC has been, and continues to be, committed to study the biological basis of SCA.
Moreover, adopted children often struggle with similar challenges whereby they yearn to be "normal" (i.e., with their biological parents instead of with adoptive parents) and even pass through a phase in which they resent their adoptive parents (which, by the way, is another example of misplaced blame: Their adoptive parents committed to raising them; their biological parents did not).
This conception of psychiatry is fully biological but not committed to a particular metaphysical interpretation of what biological explanation must look like.
As the institute puts it: traditional marriage ensures "the trans-generational good of establishing a legally recognised and socially supported context for both the procreation of children and their continued nurture and healthy development to adulthood in a community based on 'otherness': a man and a woman who are their biological parents and committed to each other".
NASA is committed to exploring space while avoiding the biological contamination of other solar system bodies and protecting the Earth against potential harm from materials returned from space.
EHP is committed to facilitating interdisciplinary communication from the most basic biological mechanism to public policy issues in the interest of health.
Various communities, working on biological model representations, have already committed to the use and support of SED-ML, including SBML, CellML, and the Virtual Cell.
