But then, if this were understood as a thesis about intrinsic value as we have been understanding this concept, the implication would seem to be that, since it contains rational beings, ours is the best of all possible worlds.[4] Yet this is a thesis that Kant, along with many others, explicitly rejects elsewhere (Kant, Lectures in Ethics).
That's been a thesis of "The Comeback," and even with a slightly more benevolent take in Season 2, it's still one of Valerie's most recognizable characteristics.
Representationalism, as presented so far, is an identity thesis with respect to qualia: qualia are supposedly one and the same as certain representational contents.
This is a challenging thesis, presented with a masterly array of sources across a busy century, at once thought-provoking and thoroughly informed; the prose is fluent and zestful, and the arguments are constructed with a fine level of critical observation.
2121 is a novel with a thesis: that the current vogue for checking Twitter on smartphones and watching YouTube videos of cats doing endearing things is a profound pathology of humankind.
What you are left with is a skilful thesis-drama in which a hero is destroyed by false accusation rather than, as with Albee's The Goat, a scorching tragedy in which hubris gets its come-uppance.
Rejecting Shankara's conception of reality, Ramanuja defended the thesis that brahman is a being with infinitely perfect excellent virtues, a being whose perfection cannot be exceeded.
He said it in a jokey way, but it wasn't a joke; Foreign Bodies is a thorough-going thesis, packed with information, interviews and, most importantly, argument.
In recent years a Los-Angeles-specific subgenre has grown like Topsy, from the entrancing "Short Cuts" to the less fabulous "Crash" to any number of weaker efforts: These days every film student in Southern California must be assembling a thesis project with a lineup of locals intended to reveal the Connectedness of Us All.
But there is one thesis with which he is associated above all others: modal realism.
