As Fleck because of the lack of education in this area could not write about physics, he found corresponding episodes in the history of medicine with which he illustrated theses circulating in the thought collective of physicists who were debating what was happening in their discipline.
He illustrated his thesis by charting the decline of bowling leagues.A recent set of articles in the Economic Journal* shows how economists are grappling to analyse social capital.
A cartoon similar to HowToons illustrated his thesis.
Govindarajan illustrates his thesis with several compelling company stories.
Entine also used football to illustrate his thesis that black players have natural advantages.
In his book, he cites several recent Supreme Court opinions to illustrate his thesis.
Kurzweil illustrates this thesis in the context of a system for reading words.
All this is designed somehow or other to illustrate the thesis that "just as McCarthyism began long before McCarthy, it endured long after him".
But the play, which basically shows once-comfortable capitalists put into the position of refugees, feels as it were illustrating a thesis rather than exploring a conflict.
In other words, EH Carr is "utterly, eternally wrong" in saying that "Stalin illustrates the thesis that circumstances make the man, not the man the circumstances".
