Marshall shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for proving that stomach ulcers are caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori rather than by stress, a longstanding and erroneous connection that formed the basis both of thinking on the subject and of the lucrative standard treatment.
As I have maintained in several other contexts, this is a very unsatisfactory account of political reality in modern societies; but it is also a problematic basis for thinking of the legal category of citizenship and the nature of human interdependence.
This undercuts the entire basis for thinking of the drug problem as mainly having to do with interdiction of foreign substances, and places it more in the category of "Why do people take drugs, and then some become addicted to them?" This is a much larger and more psychological, cultural, and public health issue.
And think about the basis of our thinking itself - our philosophical values set in a contemporary context.
"Half the electorate is really not happy at this point with the president's leadership, and so that doesn't provide members of the House with much of a basis for thinking there will be coattails for them to ride on," said James E. Campbell, a professor of political science at the State University at Buffalo.
Even if our concept of what a species is in these organisms is not particularly robust, a good deal of our basis for thinking about biodiversity is based on such categories.
Notably, the one Biblical story later used to justify racial distinctions was not used by orthodox Christian thinkers as a basis of race thinking.
The paper presents a pilot interdisciplinary research study carried out as a step towards understanding the neurological basis of design thinking.
Descartes' belief that the fact that he had made (epistemic) mistakes provides a basis for thinking that the Author of his being is less than perfect, and that, in turn, renders plausible the proposition that his epistemic equipment is not reliable.
There is no basis for the assumption that the state, any state, is inimical to creativity; and more importantly, no basis for thinking that it is the availability of limitless money that spurs ingenuity.
