These communities give prominence in worship to those features that called them into existence: sectarian religious concerns, nationalism, dissatisfaction with the worship and ideas of the dominant religious communities, or other distinctive commitments.
Others focus on architecture's distinctive commitments to creator or user engagement.
Moreover, the distinctive commitments of the kalpwasis are underlined by the fact that they do not simply commit to live a simple life for the month they commit to participating in the Mela for 12 consecutive years.
John was made a Life Trustee in recognition of his unselfish and distinctive commitment to The Home.
So, for many ersatzists, the status of World Indiscernibility does not depend upon any distinctive modal commitments, but is settled by apparently orthogonal questions regarding the nature of the entities with which possible worlds are identified.
In addition, those who affirm the existence of haecceities and other non-qualitative properties might still go on to reject the distinctive modal commitments of haecceitism (e.g., denying that things could differ non-qualitatively without differing qualitatively).
Thus, while Nietzsche criticizes the description of agency that is typically part and parcel of MPS, he also holds that "[i]t is not error as error that" he objects to fundamentally in MPS (EH IV 7): that is, it is not the falsity of the descriptive account of agency presupposed by MPS, per se, that is the heart of the problem, but rather its distinctive normative commitments.
Moral realism is not a particular substantive moral view nor does it carry a distinctive metaphysical commitment over and above the commitment that comes with thinking moral claims can be true or false and some are true.
But as important as these activities are, more crucial is the propagation of a distinctive mindset: a commitment to explaining one's values and to giving a hearing to the values of others.
Since both Replacement and Normative Naturalists share the methodological commitment distinctive of naturalism to make philosophical theorizing continuous with and dependent upon scientific theorizing the difference must be located elsewhere: not in methodology, but in goal.
We do find, however, that the strongest espoused deviation from core professional values and logics has occurred in traditional work contexts (i.e. public accounting firms), and for the distinctive value of commitment to independence enforcement, the deviation is most pronounced in the elite core of the profession – the Big Four professional service firms.
