What struck me most about Professor Gould was his ability to synthesize seemingly unrelated facts of life (like batting averages and insects' biological evolution) into coherent theses.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The wide-scope interpretation of instrumental coherence is also subject to objections independently of its combination with the thesis that one ought, or has reason, to be instrumentally coherent.
Seeing that there is no coherent solution to all three issues, Epicurus rejects the harm thesis.
