Start with two broad sentences that will make the thesis to apply to your audience.
Update has important connections with a notion of change offered by David Lewis (1976) to make sense of the thesis that the probability of conditionals goes by some notion of conditional probability.
What is clear, however, is that we should not make the assumption, almost universally made in the older literature, that the thesis, that every event has a cause, is equivalent to the thesis of determinism.
In other words, EH Carr is "utterly, eternally wrong" in saying that "Stalin illustrates the thesis that circumstances make the man, not the man the circumstances".
And again, the generalized normativity of truth appears to make trouble for pluralists, insofar as the thesis that there are several ways of being true apparently implies a proliferation of doxastic truth norms.
[The present discussion uses the label "non-objectivism" instead of the simple "subjectivism" since there is an entrenched usage in metaethics for using the latter to denote the thesis that in making a moral judgment one is reporting (as opposed to expressing) one's own mental attitudes (e.g., "Stealing is wrong" means "I disapprove of stealing").
Building on a line of thought due originally to Boghossian (1992), David Sosa (2007) argues that content externalism is incompatible with conjunction of the thesis that intrinsic duplicates make the same inferences and the thesis that the logical relations between our thoughts (whether one validly follows from another, e.g).
Loux agrees in part with such a sentiment, arguing that the thesis makes univocal but transcategorial reference impossible, thereby rendering a statement of the thesis that being is said in many ways impossible as well.
Theological fatalism is the thesis that infallible foreknowledge of a human act makes the act necessary and hence unfree.
I often wonder what Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens would make of James' thesis that although no theological argument can prove the existence of Divinity, the many loving encounters with Divinity by people of all eras, climes and classes, consistent in tone and effect, must mean something.
