Sentence examples for committed to the proposition from inspiring English sources

He is committed to the proposition that serious history can be readable, enjoyable, and accessible to an interested general public.

Relationism, on the other hand, is committed to the proposition that it is nonsensical even to inquire what these laws might be.

Carney returns to the debt ceiling: "The president is absolutely committed to the proposition that the American people cannot pay ransom to Congress for doing its job".

But in an interview in advance of the Friday and Saturday G-7 meetings, a senior Treasury official reiterated that the Obama administration is committed to the proposition that banks must remain in private hands.

"The president is absolutely committed to the proposition that the American people cannot pay ransom to Congress for doing its job". When it comes to the debt ceiling... it is absolutely his view that demands for aransom of any kind, any kind of extraction of a concession... are unacceptable.

"The prestige of the scientific establishment, and of the intellectual class in general, is heavily committed to the proposition that evolution in the blind watchmaker sense is either a fact, or a theory so well supported by evidence that only ignorant or thoroughly unreasonable people refuse to believe it.

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Here we can agree, for example, that you can vote because you're a citizen and that this is a grounding claim, but in so doing we aren't committed to the existence of propositions or facts (e.g., the proposition/fact that you can vote and the proposition/fact that you're a citizen) or relations (the grounding relation that holds between these propositions/facts).

Democracy X is dominated by two parties, Y and Z. Party Y is committed to the truth of propositions A, B and C, while Party Z is committed to the falsity of A, B and C. Slowly the evidence mounts: A, B and C look very likely to be false.

From an early period the Greeks formulated the objectives of mathematics not in terms of practical procedures but as a theoretical discipline committed to the development of general propositions and formal demonstrations.

Macs are PCs, after all, and buying a PC from a company that isn't firmly committed to the products is a dubious proposition in my opinion.