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Showing posts with label commitment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commitment. Show all posts
Saturday, May 11, 2024

What is it like not to be hedging?

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Plausibly, a Christian commitment prohibits hedging. Thus in some sense even if one’s own credence in Christianity is less than 100%, one sh...
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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

"Commitment": Phenomenology at the rock wall

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If you watch people rock climbing enough (in my case, only in the gym, as I have seen disturbing outdoor climbing safety numbers, while gym ...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Conditional commitments

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Compare: Assuming you pass at least one of your classes this spring, we will hire you in May. We will hire you in May. To a l...
Saturday, July 10, 2010

Certainty of faith

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The Christian tradition is clear on Christian faith being certain , a certainty due to the Holy Spirit, either in revealing the do...
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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Life is short

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It is a truism that life is short. But this truism is in tension with the very plausible claim that life-long commitments are ha...
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Intuitions on lying and deception

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My intuition that lying is significantly different from some other forms of deception is driven by an intuition I have about speech being sp...
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