Despite the gravity of his themes, Mr. Thiyam said he is committed to the play of thought and to the craft that goes into the theater.
For if God is valuable and God is identical to the universe then we might seem committed to the somewhat implausible thought that everything in the universe is equally valuable; a leveling off which gave rise to Coleridge's complaint that 'everything God' and 'no God' are in effect identical positions.
But it is committed to the claim that propositional thought and thinking cannot be successfully accounted for in its entirety in purely imagistic terms.
As discussed earlier, Herder's philosophy of language is committed to the two doctrines that thought is essentially dependent on and bounded by language, and that meaning is word-usage.
For such a philosopher, plausibly, a person is ontologically committed to the objects of her thought, and the kinds they exemplify, independently of what propositions she takes to be true of those objects, or even whether there are any such propositions.
Smith, like Kelman, is committed to the moment-to-moment experience of thought, but this is just one of the pleasures of her remarkable novel.
More controversially, one now finds it argued that the traditional picture is simply wrong at a more general level, and that Hegel, even in his systematic thought, was not committed to the bizarre, teleological spirit monism that has been traditionally attributed to him because he was free of the type of traditional metaphysical commitments that had been criticized by Kant.
The CPC is still committed to communist thought.
There are occasional hopeful signs pointing in other directions, often in small journals or quarterlies published by academic departments or individuals committed to independent thought.
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