The critic Richard Schickel, who produced, directed and wrote it, has compressed the years of a vast war into two hours without a coherent thesis beyond the worthy desire to pay homage to the photographers and the invaluable record they kept.
When the time comes to write their thesis, many Ph.D. candidates find it difficult to compress years of reading literature, conducting experiments, and analyzing results into a clear, complete, and coherent dissertation.
He said in the introduction to his Philosophical Papers Volume II (1986) that, like any analytic philosopher, he had set out to tackle problems piecemeal, but that he seemed almost inadvertently to have produced a coherent, unified thesis.
In the end, Callicles' position is perhaps best seen as a series of shifting suggestions or impulses — against conventional justice, against temperance, for the Homeric self-assertion of the strong, for pleasures and psychological intensity — rather than a coherent set of philosophical theses.
It wasn't until after he'd finished writing about Breivik that he realised that he formed a coherent part of the thesis of My Struggle.
The modal rationalist thesis that every apriori coherent sentence describes a genuine metaphysical possibility has been challenged in a number of different ways (e.g., Hill and McLaughlin 1999; Loar 1999; Shoemaker 1999; Yablo 1999; 2000b; Schroeter 2004).
If such views are coherent this would suggest the two negative theses are logically independent.
The letter is a completely coherent "thank you" note and belies De Wetter's thesis that Fossey was a hopeless alcoholic and that an intoxicated state on that fateful night provided the opportunity for her murder.
Seeing that there is no coherent solution to all three issues, Epicurus rejects the harm thesis.
A further consequence of this view is that the idea of an untranslatable language — an idea often found in association with the thesis of conceptual relativism — cannot be given any coherent formulation.
Intuitively, that truth is to be understood in terms of the epistemic capacities of non-omniscient agents is at least a coherent position a position distinct from and more plausible than the thesis that all truths are known.
