Informally speaking, the notion of vector commitment allows one to commit to an vector ((m_1,ldots,m_q)) in such a way that the committer can later open the commitment at specific positions.
Social goals in the minds of the group members are argued to be the real glue of joint activity, and the notion of social commitment, as different from individual and from collective commitment, is underlined.
How might a defender of the truthmaker account respond?[35] It won't do to claim that the notion of ontological commitment targeted by the truthmaker account doesn't include the missing implicit commitments.
According to the Fregean tradition, which connects the notion of ontological commitment to that of a semantic value, this will mean that plural expressions incur commitment to plural entities, much as predicates incur commitment to concepts.
"Bridal is not just about girls getting married -- it's about all women who want to, or aspire to, or who see in their future this notion of commitment," said Laura Lee Miller, president of Unilever Prestige, a unit of Unilever Cosmetics.
But note that the notion of ontological commitment is now entirely formal.
On its face, the notion of ontological commitment for theories is a simple matter.
This tradition ties the notion of ontological commitment very closely to that of a semantic value.
