In order to substantiate the implied thesis that what ought to be done i.e., dharma cannot be decided by either perception or reasoning, Jaimini proceeds to a discussion of the nature of ways of knowing.
Bullmore's implied thesis is that true friendships are not all sweetness and light.
I agree your general implied thesis that at times, liberal left in order to be politically correct is guilty of coming up with apologetic defense of Islamic extremism.
Moreover, a huge variety of issues in philosophy relate to truth, either by relying on theses about truth, or implying theses about truth.
The important thing to note here about Mackie's notion of "objectification" is that it implies a thesis of moral phenomenology: It seems to someone who is making the moral judgment that she is responding to moral facts present in the external world (whereas in fact she is causally active in the generation of her moral experience).
But critically, this thesis implied that people respond to incentives a realisation that opened the door to insights across the whole range of human activity... Mr Becker brought his characteristic analysis to the question [of the economics of the family], assuming that people are guided in family choices by a desire to improve their own welfare.
The causal closure thesis implied that, if mental and other special causes are to produce physical effects, they must themselves be physically constituted.
But over time, both as its proponents have clarified what the thesis implied (e.g., gravitating to talk of historical entities rather than individuals) and as more sophisticated options for defenders of the view that species are kinds were developed (e.g., the HPC view of kinds, Boyd 1999a,b; Wilson, Barker and Brigandt 2007), this radical edge to the thesis has diminished.
The Church-Turing thesis implied that a mechanical device, shuffling symbols as simple as 0 and 1, could imitate any conceivable process of mathematical deduction.
But we still saw in section 4 that substantial theories of truth tend to imply metaphysical theses, or even embody metaphysical positions.
This fact about underdetermination is implied by Davidson's Thesis of the Autonomy of Linguistic Meaning, according to which once a bit of language has acquired a conventional meaning, it can be used for any of a variety of extra-linguistic purposes (Davidson, 1979).
