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Commitments Defined with the Help of Public Concepts

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Believing and Accepting

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In the first chapter of An Essay on Belief and Acceptance (1992), Jonathan Cohen sets out various distinguishing features (see diagram 1).

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Woodfield, A. (2000). Commitments Defined with the Help of Public Concepts. In: Engel, P. (eds) Believing and Accepting. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 83. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4042-3_12

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