— For nearly two weeks, many here on the Duke University campus had been aware of a certain senior "thesis" that a recent graduate wrote, apparently as a private joke, about her sexual exploits with 13 student-athletes.
While Nelkin does not herself put weight on the supposed analogy between abilities and dispositions, she shares certain theses with the new dispositionalists, notably that an agent in a 'Frankfurt case' does retain her rational abilities.
It is a defensible position that van Fraassen's case against metaphysics depends essentially on certain theses that, although they are not themselves metaphysical theses, are nevertheless open to many of the criticisms he brings against metaphysical theses.
Socrates, by contrast, merely claims to have no knowledge, and he regards certain theses as far more worthy of our credence than their denials.
Perhaps most famously, certain theses have been jointly deployed to support skeptical or anti-realist views in metaethics.
The development of metaethical theories over roughly the past seventy years has perhaps been shaped most profoundly by the use of certain theses about moral motivation to support noncognitivist anti-realism.
There is also an external evidence corroborating to a certain degree the thesis about Cārvāka / Lokāyata affiliation of Jayarāśi.
The tension being discussed here could be resolved if we were to accept a certain sort of internalist thesis about moral norms, a thesis that Michael Smith calls "rationalism" (Smith 1994, p. 62), though it would need to be affirmed in a somewhat stronger form than that which Smith affirms.
According to Chalmers, then, a certain sort of C-P tholds holds for states of affairs that are conceivable on reflection in the positive sense that is, for states of affairs that are, on reflection, imaginable.
The fifth discourse of this book contains the thesis that "a certain small gland in the middle of the ventricles" is the seat of the sensus communis, the general faculty of sense (AT VI 129, not in CSM I).
