Sentence examples for logically committed from inspiring English sources

Arguments like the first cause argument for God's existence claim to be demonstrations; their exponents believe that anyone who commits himself to the truth of the premises stands logically committed to the truth of the conclusions.

(Mackie writes that one is never "logically committed" to offer allegiance to an institution).

This is why I am not logically committed to finding tissue damage in my hand in truly uttering (5) — even though this is what I normally expect to find there.

The ego able to contemplate what is within it ponders what lies outside …There are some objects that we can contemplate without being logically committed to the existence of anything other than the ego.

And one belief logically commits one to another when the content of the first entails the second.

On this view the task of the metaphysician is to show what our presuppositions logically commit us to believe, rather than what people believe as a matter of historical fact.

In other words, when we make claims about where it hurts (attribute pain to bodily locations), strictly speaking we in fact rescind from logically committing ourselves to there being anything physically wrong in those locations — even though we normally expect to find some physical disorder in them.

"By definition, it is logically impossible to commit a firearm homicide or firearm suicide without using a firearm," Kleck told the Los Angeles Times.

It serves no deterrent purpose, and exists solely as an additional punishment not logically connected to the crime committed.

The point about these two cases is that they both had international ramifications but the actual alleged hacking offences had been committed in the United Kingdom so, logically, that is where they face trial.

Alternatively, one can say: T is ontologically committed to Ks iff T logically entails '∃x Px' for some predicate 'P' that expresses the kind K. See Rayo (2007: 432), where something similar is called the "logical version" of Quine's criterion.