Sentence examples for influential thesis from inspiring English sources

In classical rationalism in the seventeenth century and in Descartes' influential thesis of animals as machines, human rationality allowed human beings to emerge from the irrational, instinct-driven animal world.

Others welcomed it as sufficient proof that, contrary to the influential thesis of Kant, Euclidean geometry does not convey any prerequisites of human experience and that the geometrical structure of physical space is open to experimental inquiry.

How can Hume reconcile this position with his endorsement of Batteux's influential thesis, in which the mechanical arts are distinguished from fine art by the fact that the latter exists only to provide pleasure?

Krause, formerly guitarist with the Weavers, became an itinerant sound recordist, and developed influential theses about "wild sound", or what he calls "biophony".

Among the most influential theses put forward by the logical positivists was the claim that in order for a proposition with empirical content i.e., one that purports to say something about the world to be meaningful, or cognitively significant, it must be possible, at least in principle, to verify the proposition through experience.

He expanded on his mathematical model for bargaining in his influential doctoral thesis, "Non-Cooperative Games," which appeared in September 1951 in the journal Annals of Mathematics.

Although it has been influential, the Olson thesis has not swept all before it.

Lasus and Hippasus are sometimes said to have been the first to put forth the influential but mistaken thesis that the pitch of a sound depended on the speed with which it travels, but it is far more likely that Archytas originated this view (Huffman 2005, 138 139).

Behind this simple phrase looms an important and influential foreign policy thesis; namely, that a nuclear-armed Iran could be reliably deterred from employing nuclear weapons.

According to an influential objection, similarity theses presuppose that we can reliably distinguish dreams and waking, yet the conclusion of dreaming arguments presupposes that we cannot.

The thesis became influential.