Sentence examples for theoretic commitment from inspiring English sources

Popper was a somewhat paradoxical man, whose theoretic commitment to the primacy of rational criticism was counterpointed by hostility towards anything that amounted to less than total acceptance of his own thought, and in Britain — as had been the case in Vienna — he became increasingly an isolated figure, though his ideas continued to inspire admiration.

We show that our protocol is game theoretic secure for many commitment games.

Materialism was thus forestalled, from Lotze's perspective, by his overriding commitment to a value-theoretic teleology.

(Although one can see clearly here the stark contrast between Fodor's use of the term and that of Weber or Hayek, for whom the ability of the social scientist to provide something beyond merely causal explanation was what imposed the methodological commitment to the action-theoretic level of analysis).

Such an equation generally fails to distinguish what were for Weber two distinct methodological issues: the commitment to providing explanations at an action-theoretic level, and the specific model of rational action that one proposes to use at that level (i.e., the ideal type).

The freedom that we have to choose a geometric distance function is due neither to a general skepticism nor to a purely verbal accommodation with respect to a set theoretic development of the foundations of mathematics that itself possesses ontological commitment, but an ontological peculiarity of a new sort (Quine 1986: 401).

Yet shortly thereafter, partly due to problems with the unification program, Parsons abandoned his commitment to both methodological individualism and action theory, adopting a purely systems-theoretic view.

Inter-theoretic reduction may be dead but the biological principle of reduction [ 84], a commitment to try to reduce wherever possible, to create as many reductive explanations as possible, even in the absence of complete reduction, lives on.

Although cultural evolutionary game theoretic models do act as vehicles for promulgating certain values, they wear those minimal value commitments on their sleeve.

For another thing, quantification in ordinary language might fail to carry ontological commitment if it is not objectual, not amenable to the standard Tarskian model-theoretic semantics (see §1.6.2).

By removing MSA and restoring S5 to the reconstruction of Adams' above, the model-theoretic actualist arrives at a much more standard first-order modal logic without, it would appear, any commitment to possibilia or possible worlds.