The word 'incurring' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use 'incurring' to describe an action or situation in which a person or situation is responsible for or creates certain outcomes or consequences. For example, "The company incurred a large amount of debt due to poor economic decisions."
Indeed, Quine could also have given the (radical) Meinongian the word 'is' and any other predicate that purports to impose an ontological restriction on the quantifier; for what is central to Quine's criterion is that one cannot quantify over entities without incurring ontological commitment to those entities.
For instance, one might argue that the Stuxnet virus did damage that in generations before might have been accomplished by an air raid incurring significant civilian casualties and that so far there have been no reported human casualties resulting from Stuxnet.
So the rational victim will ask herself the following question: which is lower the cost of taking precautions or the expected cost of incurring an injury?
But Heck was concerned, as constructive logicism had been, to derive the basic laws of arithmetic while incurring ontological commitment only to the natural numbers.
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It is a reductionist thesis about law's normative character, maintaining that the normativity of law consists in the subjects' ability to predict the chances of incurring punishment or evil and their presumed desire to avoid it.
These, in turn, are incurred by an act of "express or tacit pact" between the would-be citizens to help each other, together with their consent to subordinate themselves to a superior (De opere sex dierum, V.7.3, in Suárez, Opera omnia III).[13] This view places Suárez very close to the social contract school.
It not only made the sentence effective, but also informed the scholarly community of Autrecourt's errors and of the punishments set out in the instrumentum, which they would incur if they were to teach the censured errors.
Holism incurred in objections connected with the acquisition and the understanding of language: how could individual words be acquired by children, if grasping their meaning involved, somehow, semantic competence on the whole language?
Martin's argument for the claim that the alternatives to the disjunctive approach incur greater epistemic burdens primarily focuses on our understanding of the notion of a perfect hallucination.
Siegel (2004) also suggests that, properly understood, the epistemic burden incurred by the common element theorist is not so great after all, as it leaves open the possibility that subjects may make all kinds of mistakes about the kinds of experiences they are having.
