Sentence examples for semantic commitments from inspiring English sources

This "two-world", Cartesian view has distinctive ontological, epistemological, and semantic commitments that each lead to particular philosophical puzzles.

9. Operationalists did not always make explicit their metaphysical and semantic commitments, leaving some room for interpretation.

It will be helpful to keep in mind that Ryle's target is the Official Doctrine with its attendant ontological, epistemological, and semantic commitments.

(In fact, contextualism was generally developed first; pragmatic encroachment theorists were motivated in part by the attempt to explain some of the patterns contextualists were interested in without contextualism's semantic commitments).

SEM is designed with a minimum of semantic commitment to guarantee maximal interoperability.

This semantic commitment contrasts primarily with those of so-called instrumentalist epistemologies of science, which interpret descriptions of unobservables simply as instruments for the prediction of observable phenomena, or for systematizing observation reports.

16 Viewed straight forwardly the context is just the setting, but the concept of context can be expanded to also include the physical, semantic and commitment context.

33 36 The semantic and commitment dimensions of context resemble the psychological fidelity dimension, that is, the degree to which the trainee perceives the simulation to be an authentic surrogate for the task being trained.

These factors were related to interaction between participants in the simulation, but they were not related to the physical ISS or OSS setting, which is why they appear to better represent a more complex perception of context that includes semantic and commitment elements and that can also be viewed as a part of the psychological fidelity.

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.

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.