If it had been any ordinary commitment--a brow threading appointment, a hunger strike, a state dinner with Barack and Michelle--I would have totally bailed so that I could do my recap, but it was the opening of my mother's solo show at an art gallery in Brooklyn.
At the heart of the piece is Hans's mother, Irmgard, played by Penelope Wilton with dignity, passion and out-of-the-ordinary commitment.
I wish to make such an ordinary human commitment to you.
For ordinary people juggling commitments, what could be better than deciding for yourself when you can and cannot work?
The quantifier account provides at best a criterion for ordinary or scientific commitment, but not the specifically ontological commitment of interest to metaphysicians.
Even so, Crazy Age remains rooted in the ordinary world of enduring commitments and numerous daily compromises.
On this view, discovering the ontological commitments of ordinary speakers is easy.
Loeb notes that on virtually any reasonable theory of language, meaning and reference are at least partly determined by the semantic intentions and commitments of ordinary speakers, suitably adjusted to account for performance errors and other deviations.
Sider (1999), for example, suggests that the project of discovering the ontological commitments of ordinary language should proceed by searching, not for paraphrases, but for underlying truths (see also Melia 1995 and Yablo 1999 for related critiques).
Thus, the issue is one requiring sophisticated and philosophically informed social science directed at determining the semantic intentions and commitments of ordinary moral thinkers, not armchair reasoning in which only two possibilities are considered.
