Again, we could distinguish among the different possible objects of commitment, since there is nothing to rule out being committed to a question or to an imperative.
About forgetting an old girlfriend and meeting a new girlfriend in Hawaii, sure; about getting to the Greek, of course; about losing one's virginity or even knocking a woman up, why not; but engagement — a sign of commitment, an object of sentiment, and a cause for lots of fussy details — is, as such, sexless and juiceless, and leaves many male viewers cold.
Despite LeWitt's and Sehgal's varying levels of commitment to non-object-based artwork, both of these artists rely on a formal institution, namely a museum, gallery, or art space, as a necessary pillar of support in displaying their work.
For part of what it means to call something "God" is that it is an appropriate object of total devotion and unconditional commitment.
Finally, the third argument precludes the existence of the Trinity only if each member is, in abstraction from the others, an appropriate object of total devotion and unconditional commitment.
For one thing, just as Frege took singular terms to be a vehicle for commitment to objects, he took incomplete expressions to be a vehicle of commitment to concepts and (more generally) functions.
The exhibition is text-heavy, meaning that it requires a great deal of commitment to fully appreciate the myriad connections between the objects on view.
Is it simply a lack of commitment?
Your sense of commitment.
