The chairman of the EU leaders' summit in Brussels, Herman Van Rompuy, emerged after late night talks to announce that, like last year's rescue, the second bailout for Greece would not involve any commitment from countries outside the eurozone.
There are, however, much more modest forms of dualism most notably those concerned with mental properties (and sometimes states and events)—that need not involve any commitment to the persistence of mental life after death.
It's not clear whether ordinary thinking involves any commitment for or against temporal parts: some believe that it is neutral, while others believe that the default assumption is that things don't have temporal parts.
We could label an account of predicates that does not involve any commitment to such kinds of metaphysical constituents — whether forms or formalities — nominalist, and think of such a nominalist account of properties as something distinct from a nominalist account of universals.
The deal would provide a framework for increased cooperation between the armed forces of the two nations but would not involve any binding commitment for either country to come to the defence of the other.
"The Saudi initiative does not involve any military commitment, but an understanding that we will combat militancy," he said.
Mr. Palmer said that position involved a commitment to raise money for the charity, which helps gifted, underprivileged children.
Hook's belief in democracy involved a commitment to civil liberties and racial desegregation.
Disney is in talks to buy significant parts of 21st Century Fox, the media conglomerate controlled by the Murdoch family, and Rupert Murdoch has asked that any sale involve a commitment by Mr. Iger to extend his reign at Disney — for a fourth time — to help manage the absorption of Fox assets like the FX cable channel and the Star television operation in India.
Methodological individualism, on the other hand, does not involve a commitment to any particular claim about the content of the intentional states that motivate individuals, and thus remains open to the possibility that human psychology may have an irreducibly social dimension.
