This theorem can be used to establish the thesis that an ideal doxastic agent's beliefs should obey the synchronic and diachronic rules of the ranking calculus.
Another important figure in the development of theories of religion was the British folklorist Sir James Frazer (1854 1941), in whose major work, The Golden Bough, is set forth a mass of evidence to establish the thesis that men must have begun with magic and progressed to religion and from that to science.
But given that the crucial definitions of mathematical concepts were stated in terms of extensions, the inconsistency in Basic Law V undermined Frege's attempt to establish the thesis of logicism.
Interestingly, in Aristotle's attempts in Book I, Chapter 15 of the Prior Analytics, to establish the theses Łukasiewicz sees an Aristotelian endorsement for the idea of a principle of extensionality for modal operators as well as for categorical ones.
The ontological step of the error theorist's argument is to establish that thesis X (whatever it may be) is false.
The direction of argument notwithstanding, Thompson belongs to the group of theorists we are considering, in that the objective of the argument is to exploit an account of action in order to establish a thesis about calculative practical reasons, namely, that those reasons are not psychological states such as desires or intentions.
Proponents of this view, such as B.F. Skinner, often made parallels to previous pseudoscientific theories (such as that of the four humours, the phlogiston theory of combustion, and the vital force theory of life) that have all been successfully eliminated in attempting to establish their thesis about the nature of the mental.
Your source material must help you establish your thesis (statement of opinion or belief) on that topic.
While there is evidence for the Decomposition Thesis all the way down to the 10 millisecond level, more work needs to be done to establish the Relevance Thesis and particularly the Modeling Thesis at the lower levels.
Piketty's research, which is immaculate, reaches back hundreds of years to establish a simple thesis: the American dream – and more broadly, the egalitarian promise of Western-style capitalism – does not, and maybe cannot, deliver on its promises.
