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Though Ahmed is clearly in need of help, he isn't posing a danger to himself or others and doesn't meet the state's criteria for commitment.
In the decade since the first such laws took effect, courts across the country have struggled to define criteria for commitment and to distinguish people with psychological disorders from other recidivists.
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There will also be a modal entailment criterion for commitment to particulars: A theory T is ontologically committed to a iff T necessarily implies that a exists iff, for every (metaphysically) possible world w, T is true at w only if a is in the domain of w.
Note that, whereas in the criterion for commitment to kinds the necessity is de dicto (with respect to 'K'), in the criterion for commitment to particulars, the necessity is de re. 26.
All of these objections to modal criteria for ontological commitment have a common source: ontological commitment appears to be sensitive to distinctions that metaphysical necessity cannot accommodate.
Note that, unlike the criteria for ontological commitment considered heretofore, this is intended only as a sufficient condition for ontological commitment.
In Colorado, where legislators are undertaking a broad overhaul of the state's mental health system proposed by Gov. John W. Hickenlooper, a Democrat, the proposal also includes changing the criteria for involuntary commitment.
While Pennsylvania has submitted 756,952 records to NICS, four states have submitted fewer than 100, which means that even if Santiago's history had met the criteria for involuntary commitment, his record might not have been in the database, anyway.
The California version, dubbed a "gun violence restraining order" and implemented in 2016, enables friends and family members to have a loved one's gun seized for a defined period of time if they believe he or she poses a threat to themselves or others, even if he or she doesn't meet the criteria for involuntary commitment.
This movement led to narrowed criteria for civil commitment (from criteria based on need for treatment to dangerousness-based criteria), along with increased procedural protections.
The problems to be discussed (in §3.3 and §3.4) apply to any truthmaker account of ontological commitment that endorses truthmaker necessitarianism.[31] The truthmaker criterion for ontological commitment to kinds, as formulated above, strengthens the modal entailment criterion (§2.2) since, necessarily, if Ks are among the truthmakers for T, then Ks exist.
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