Sentence examples for committed to the possibility from inspiring English sources

François Hollande, the French president, has remained committed to the possibility of military action, even as the United States and Russia negotiated how to persuade Syria to relinquish its chemical arsenal.

If one insists on the possibility that ordinary functional organization is not enough to fix a person's mental life, one seems thereby to be committed to the possibility that people may not be as well acquainted with their own mental lives as they think they are.

The idea is to change the argument's second premise, insisting that modal-structural translations of mathematical theories are indispensable to our best theories of the world, and concluding that we ought to be ontologically committed to the possibility of the corresponding structures.

We are in equal parts captivated by a vision that merges competitiveness with battlefield aggression and committed to the possibility of defusing such free-floating hostility.

Moreover, he was a Yankee in a party that was moving south and west, a moderate in a party lurching to the right and a man committed to the possibilities of the federal government in a party increasingly premised on scorn for them.

We are so intoxicated with victimhood, manipulated by our leaders, that we let it ruin our lives, blind our eyes to the evils that we commit, to the possibilities for peace that we miss.

One view is that Descartes is committed to the reality of this possibility and that, with his commitment to other possibilities, this commitment is part of a pattern of Descartes' helping himself to entities that his system does not allow.

All he would state was this, - that he considered himself as committed to the proposed measure, without the possibility of compromise or retreat - (Hear, hear).

However, Descartes will still have to contend with the objection that there are texts in which he seems to be committed to the existence of unactualized possibilities and, in particular, texts in which he appears to be committed to a non-compatibilist view of human freedom.[20] Thus far we have considered the interpretive issue of whether or not Descartes' eternal truths could have been otherwise.

Even though, as previously noted, the Academics were not necessarily committed to the skeptical position, they defended the possibility of a life committed to skepticism in order to prevent the Stoics from escaping the difficulties raised for their position indirectly by means of these anti-skeptical arguments.

I have been committed to "the literary" since my junior year in high school, meaning I have since then experienced literature as possibility, the possibility of radical consciousness.