So, in short, that's a whole lot less thesis-based headache.
By itself, that might spur a rebound in activity in the second half of the year.The alternative, less palatable thesis is that the stimulus delivered by central banks and governments since late 2008 and early 2009 is now starting to fade.
So the less ambitious thesis is controversial because of the second component.
This argument suggests that Pascal is committed to the less controversial thesis of indirect doxastic voluntarism the view that a person can indirectly control his or her beliefs by directly controlling his or her epistemic situation.
Another Quinean argument holds that "truth by convention" offers no explanatory or predictive advantage over the far less exciting thesis that certain statements are true due to obvious features of extra-linguistic reality.
Buchanan summarizes the book, and notes that Chapter 17 "seems to the reviewer to contain the essence of the long and more or less leisurely thesis.
Lessing's thesis that each art should restrict itself to what it can do best or is peculiarly equipped by its medium to do is a highly controversial one: it would virtually eliminate program music, for example, and descriptions of nature in novels.
Beyond arguing that space and time are ideal systems of relations, Leibniz also defends a number of less central theses that help to flesh out his positive conceptions of space and time.
The thesis, less a historical treatise than a philosophical meditation on the nature of allegory, was, he bragged to Scholem, "unmitigated chutzpah".
One doesn't necessarily know how all that extracurricular work will apply to a given piece, but writers work less from a thesis than by association: one feels one's way, just like everybody else.
That, more or less, is the thesis of Daniel Gross's frothy book "Pop!" Contrary to conventional wisdom of a few years back, he argues, the mad rush to invest in Internet companies, whether dot-coms or telecom providers, wasn't altogether bad.
