Bradley claims that proving that the ultimate end of action is self-realization would require establishing the nature of the self, of reality and the process of realization, which would amount to having a developed system of metaphysics, and that, lacking this, the best he can do is to explain the thesis and try to make it plausible (Ethical Studies, p. 65).
It would probably take a thesis in gender studies to explain this terminological imbalance.
Teaching was in Scholastic mode: it began with the reading of a Classical text; then the professor explained the thesis or proposition and offered arguments pro and contra so that a conclusion in accord with Roman Catholic dogma would result.
Vlastos famously explained the thesis as bi-conditional: that whoever has one virtue has them all.
In explaining the thesis that there is no inter-substantial causation between finite substances in the Monadologie, Leibniz famously says: "monads have no windows through which something can enter or leave" (G 6 607; AG:214).
The rest of the article will then attempt to explain and unpack this thesis for those who aren't evolutionary biologists.
After a few days of reflection, I considered that, apart from rising to my friend's challenge, the competition was an exceptional opportunity to make science more popular and to finally explain my thesis to my grandfather. .
I am tempted in this context to give the same reply as the apocryphal doctoral student who, when asked to explain his thesis, said: ' It is self-evident', but I shall not succumb entirely.
You may need to write multiple sentences to explain your thesis.
And Maria Vinti, a physiology Ph.D. student at the Laboratoire de Biomécanique, Arts et Métiers, Paris Institute of Technology, scooped the $500 biology prize for dressing up her performers in full-body unitards and elastic straps to explain her Ph.D. thesis, "Spastic co-contraction in spastic paresis: Biomechanical and physiological characterization".
