In my paper, I advance a thesis and a proposal.
However, James's remarks on Canetti's sociological treatise "Crowds and Power" ("which advanced a thesis no more gripping than its title") are grotesque.
But Mr. Zobel stressed that the film does not advance a thesis; nor does his cool, controlled approach preclude empathy for his characters.
All of this advanced a thesis: that global warming isn't as drastic as the scientific community says, that its man-made origins can't be proved and that the debate around it has become too politicized.
Evaluative questions require you to take and defend a position, to advance a thesis claim (i.e., interpretation / argument), in response to them.
Interestingly, Russell was also a distinguished mathematician who co-published a seminal work, Principia Mathematica in 1910; and also advanced a thesis of logicism, that mathematics and logic are one and the same.
Shorto overreaches at times in the interest of advancing a strong thesis and weaving an engaging tale.
Yet in claiming that pleasure or power are valuable, Mill and the N-Realist Nietzsche are advancing a normative thesis.
Call the view these compatibilists advance, the new dispositionalism.[21] Advancing a compatibilist thesis, Fara proposes a dispositional analysis of the ability to do otherwise.
McMaster, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, advanced a provocative thesis in his book "Dereliction of Duty". He argued that commanding generals during the Vietnam War were wrong to subordinate themselves to the diplomatic maneuverings of leaders like Henry Kissinger.
This pattern is advanced as a thesis for how we can expect other new technologies to make their way into the commercial security market.
