Sentence examples for a general thesis from inspiring English sources

"It is a general thesis of mine that a deep satisfaction in successful joke transactions is the sense held mutually by teller and hearer that they are joined in feeling," he writes.

A twelve-year-old with reality-TV experience and her own line of leotards offers a general thesis for our moment: "There is no such thing as a regular 9 to 5," she cheerfully explains.

Here comes the contest of the giants.As a general thesis, this may be true enough; but, of the eight civilisations that Mr Huntington lists, four or five do not really fit his definition.

A general thesis permeates the discussions in the two volumes.

This work has sometimes been designed to support a general thesis in the philosophy of science, such as the 'semantic view' of theories (Lloyd 1988).

(Even here a caveat is needed, however, since those FA theories that aspire merely to capture some values may not accept normative reduction as a general thesis).

Although Kaiser's study is really a collection of trees rather than a picture of the forest, it does have a simple general thesis: Kennedy good, Eisenhower and Johnson bad.

A more general thesis of the book is that the multiple and competing "versions" of the world that humankind makes through scientific theories (claiming, e.g., that the Sun is the center of the universe, or claiming that the Earth is) but also through mythology, art, philosophy, and so on and so forth literally make worlds; they "fabricate" what we call "facts".

These are all various elements in the general thesis that a proposition's having the modal characteristics it has (such as necessity, possibility) is not a contingent matter but is determined by logical considerations.

The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century Eberhard Zangger 285pp, Weidenfeld, £20 Eberhard Zangger explores our knowledge of the lands bordering the Mediterranean before the golden age of ancient Greece (yes, the title is a little misleading), and pushes the general thesis that archaeological orthodoxy currently has it all wrong.

Even so, as will be clear from Aristotle's discussion, this general thesis will require a host of qualifications.