Here [5a] is embedded in the scope of a negation operator and a modal operator, respectively, and it appears that these sentences commit a speaker to the truth of [5b] just as much as [5a] does.
In order to make out a version of the singular term argument here, platonists would need to begin by arguing that these sentences commit us to the existence of the property of redness and the north-of relation, respectively, because (a) they have singular terms that denote those things, and (b) they are true.
Babic, who was serving a 13-year prison sentence, committed suicide.
He had paid his dues, time after time, done his sentence but committed no crime — and yet, Sacha Baron Cohen will not be portraying Freddie Mercury in a coming biographical film.
Javier Stauring, Director of the Healing Justice Coalition, described his organization's efforts to bring together families grieving the loss of children to gang violence with parents of juveniles sentenced to life sentences for committing violent offenses.
In 2003, 20% of people sentenced had committed 15 or more previous crimes; in 2013, 33% had.Overcrowding is a big reason prisons are failing to rehabilitate people.
According to Quinean criteria, this sentence is committed to entities that swim, but not to a property of swimming; for no property of swimming need be among the values of the bound variables in order for the sentence to be true.
Facing the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence, Swartz committed suicide, provoking claims of prosecutorial overreach and calls to reform the law.
There is no access to radical websites in prison, but in almost all the above cited cases individuals ended a jail sentence more committed to violent ideologies than before.
No doubt, I would have been surprised to learn then, as you may well be now, that 80percentt of women who enter prison under sentence have committed a non-violent offence.
