In a context of someone, S, maintaining a thesis, T, a dialectical refutation will consist in asking questions of S, and then taking S's answers and using them as the premises of a proof via a deduction of not-T: this will be a refutation of T relative to the answerer (SR 8 170a13).
To be considered for departmental honors, a student must write an Honors Thesis and maintain a GPA of at least 3.6 in major courses.
Engineer candidates must submit an acceptable thesis (12 to 15 units) and maintain a minimum GPA of 3.0.
We currently maintain a BUY on OUT recognizing that the company provides at attractive risk-adjusted thesis.
For example, all versions of necessitism must reject unqualified "essentialist" theses such as the view that a person is necessarily a person; at most, one can perhaps maintain the weaker thesis that a person is necessarily if concrete, a person.
The data reveal a steady, though slight, decline in the proportion of theses focusing on classical plant taxonomy between 1970 and 1990, after which this field maintained a low level (not exceeding 10%% of all theses completed in the department).
Thus, if both post-fission person-stages are stages of the same person as the pre-fission stages (but there are indeed two distinct persons all along), then one can maintain the thesis that the identity relation is what matters, for now identity is also preserved through fission (whereas in Parfit's version while what matters is preserved through fission, identity is not).
All the while she maintained a fascination with the opportunities available to investors willing to go all in on a global thesis.
It is plausible to maintain the general thesis that there are many issues on which Hume was a sceptic or nihilist, but where his legacy is more reductionist than sceptical or nihilist.
For example, while almost all universities maintain thesis archives, few, if any, made the effort to digitize student works and make them available to the next generation of student learners.
Other writers may maintain thesis M (or some equivalent or near equivalent) on the spurious grounds that the various, and prima facie very different, attempts -- by Turing, Church, Post, Markov, and others -- to characterise in precise terms the informal notion of an effective procedure have turned out to be equivalent to one another.
