Sentence examples for controversial theses from inspiring English sources
Like other popularizing tomes by specialists who, in promoting controversial theses, have done what amounts to an end-run around the academic establishment, this one has the defects of its virtues.
But what I think Kierkegaard meant was similar to another of his famously controversial theses, that "subjectivity is truth": what we value, what we love, what makes us who we are, does not exist in the world of ordinary truth and falsehood, of facts and objectivity.
Haecceitism and essentialism are controversial theses about de re modality.
In both Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations there is a tension between some statements that seem to be stating controversial philosophical positions and others that seem to be saying that philosophy ought not to offer controversial theses but only work with what we already know by being competent language users embedded in human circumstances.
Perhaps the most controversial thesis to come out of these programs is the thesis that it is more natural, a la biology, for stepfathers to abuse their stepchildren than their genetic children on account of selection pressures that weighed on our Pleistocene ancestors.
Dawisha's controversial thesis came from exhaustive research.
However, his central controversial thesis is one that other political commentators have adhered to.
Her controversial thesis is only the latest in a series of arguments about the Parthenon that have been going on since before it was even finished.
In "Timequake," his semi-autobiographical last novel, published in 1997, Vonnegut recalls that Jane submitted a controversial thesis when she was at Swarthmore.
But Mr. Mamdani posits a new -- and far more controversial -- thesis by connecting the violent strain of Islam to a broader American strategy.
Mr. Summers advanced his controversial thesis at a meeting of economics researchers who were discussing the scarcity of women in university science and engineering positions.
