philosophical commitment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofphilosophicalandcommitment
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philosophical
adjective
uk/ˌfɪl.əˈsɒf.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌfɪl.əˈsɑː.fɪ.kəl/
relating to the study or writing ...
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commitment
noun
uk/kəˈmɪt.mənt/us/kəˈmɪt.mənt/
a promise or firm decision to ...
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(Definition ofphilosophicalandcommitmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Hisphilosophicalcommitmentto unity extended beyond science.
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Janicki insists on the importance ofphilosophicalcommitmentas a basic factor that facilitates dialogue and mutual understanding among scholars.
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I do not have anyphilosophicalcommitmenteither to fixed rates or to floating rates, for gold or against gold.
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Since it carries no explicitphilosophicalcommitment, its practitioners may not belong to any particular school of thought.
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That which any historian chooses to regard as relevant is itself steeped in philosophical commitments.
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And what, most importantly, are the ethical implications - for the public, the health system, and health professionals - of these guiding philosophical commitments?
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Hardwig never gets around to providing such a theory, and it is clear that, given his philosophical commitments, he cannot.
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Yet their philosophical commitments seem to blind them to the calculation, strategy and disruptive mass protest that went into weakening the discourse and institutions of racism.
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Moreover, he eschewed appeals to the supernatural in general, and embraced a set of philosophical commitments which granted natural causes a place of pre-eminence in his understanding of religion.
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This positivism is generally equated with quantitative research and thus carries no explicit theoretical or philosophical commitments.
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