Nelkin (2000) has questioned the coherence of dual standpoint theories on the basis of an argument for the claim that they entail commitments to contradictory beliefs about free will.
If the truth conditions of counterfactuals are understood in terms of possible worlds, it is easy to see how beliefs about what is observable entail commitments to the existence of such worlds.
This concept is culturally specific and in the present case entails commitment to consider the individual child's wellbeing together with the family's as a whole.
As shown though both case vignettes of innovations uncovered within our sample CCGs, novel ways of delivering a service or new services entailed commitment and engagement of frontline GPs, both in providing the new ideas and also enrolling colleagues in the new practice.
Trusting God will then not entail any commitment to reality's being a certain way.
Additionally, the constructive empiricist might insist that use of a theory need not entail a commitment to the theory's entire ontology.
Yet although philosophical propositions cannot be accommodated within Humean epistemology, accepting them does not entail a commitment to the metaphysics which Hume wanted to reject.
Yet once we distinguish these legitimate feelings from moral judgments, we can and should eliminate the judgments that entail a commitment to moral luck.
(It should however be noted that while theses under the description of pluralism needn't entail a commitment to relativism, some formulations of relativism (such as Boghossian's 2006b), include, as an essential ingredient, a "pluralist" clause.
The mere fact that Davidson is arguing in favor of the cause-law principle does not itself entail a commitment to the Humean view of the content of the experience of singular events that invites the worry.
The problem with these explanations, Elster argues, is that they "postulate a purpose without a purposive actor" (1982, 452), and therefore (he claims) entail a commitment to some form of objective teleology.
