Because there was not any explicit membership definition for research centers, and there were a lot of people collaborating occasionally with the centers (in the form of theses or part time research), we defined the research center membership as having at least two articles affiliated by the corresponding center.
Let us call the thesis that all metaphysical statements are meaningless "the strong form" of the thesis that metaphysics is impossible.
Two weeks ago, Jezebel published the sex diary, written in the form of a thesis, of a recent Duke graduate.
Students may elect to write an honors thesis, in which they work with an advisor on a year-long research project which they write up in the form of a thesis.
Students will be encouraged to develop this research in the form of a thesis in which a specific architectural typology is used to highlight class, racial, and gender conflicts within the home and in the city.
The exact form of the thesis and the time frame in which students complete it vary a lot between departments, but in physics the process starts in the summer before senior year when students decide what topic they want to work on; whether they want to do computational, theoretical, or experimental physics; and who they want to advise them.
Current advocates of 'metaphysical anti-realism' also advocate a strong form of the thesis that metaphysics is impossible.
Let us briefly examine an example of the strong form of the thesis that metaphysics is impossible.
Create the final product, which is usually in the form of a thesis or paper.
This product will be the culmination of your research and may take the form of a thesis, paper, documentary, etc.
The weak form of the thesis that metaphysics is impossible is this: there is something about the human mind (perhaps even the minds of all rational agents or all finite rational agents) that unfits it for reaching metaphysical conclusions in any reliable way.
