Sentence examples for existential commitment from inspiring English sources

According to the third objection to sufficiency, the quantifiers of first-order logic, properly understood, do not carry existential commitment; they are not "existentially loaded".

Calling for a "new existentialism," John Haugeland (1998) has explored the role of existential commitment in scientific practices as truth-tracking practices.

Ally that existential commitment to a fearless pretentiousness and political consciousness, and you've got a potent mix.

Above all, he seems motivated by a clear vision that sets the ideal of living and working together at a high pitch of existential commitment and danger.

But does anyone ever pause to think how trying it must be always to speak that way, or that such articulateness might be — gulp! — a hard-fought existential commitment?

Drawing attention to the existential commitment, sacrificial morality, and militant martyrdom that transforms these struggles into a complex amalgam of resistance, Bargu explores the global ramifications of human weapons' practices of resistance, their possibilities and limitations.

Third, I argue that this difference indicates that the existential commitments of the Principia are unlike DG's, especially concerning absolute space.

In short, the methodological naturalist can insist that anybody interested in "serious metaphysics" should start by articulating the substantial existential commitments of our folk theories, as articulated in their synthetic Ramsey sentences.

Third and finally, while it is yet again quite true that Kant's logic is not extensional, this is precisely because his logic is an intensional logic of non-uniform existential commitments, primitive modalities, and finegrained conceptual structures.

First, I detail Newton's account, the role definitions play axiomatic-deductive contexts (according to Newton), and the difference between definitions' existential commitments within purely geometrical and natural-philosophical modes of inquiry.

They stand, in other words, less as justifications for their authors' existential and political commitments than as themselves a form of politics: invitations to others to see things as the author sees them, so that the author's commitment to going on in a certain way will come to be shared.