Sentence examples for more general thesis from inspiring English sources

Even though Popper accepted the theory-ladenness of observations, he rejected the more general thesis about incommensurability as "the myth of the framework" (Lakatos and Musgrave 1970).

Having already explored difficulties (and strengths) of each standard, how might we evaluate the more general thesis that death is not amenable to classical definition?

In this way, the Simple View lends support to the more general thesis that non-qualitative facts about the identity of persons do not supervene upon qualitative facts.

The denial that statements about "the Good" were subjective and the recognition that they involved a predictive hypothesis led to the more general thesis that statements about the good, or normative statements, were to be interpreted as statements regarding what would be desired by persons who understood the nature of their desires and knew the consequences of their desires.

A more general thesis of the book is that the multiple and competing "versions" of the world that humankind makes through scientific theories (claiming, e.g., that the Sun is the center of the universe, or claiming that the Earth is) but also through mythology, art, philosophy, and so on and so forth literally make worlds; they "fabricate" what we call "facts".

In the case of the latter two the thesis connects with other more general theses about language which they are reported to have held.

Indeed, this is exactly how one endeavors to test or to make more precise some general thesis in many areas of philosophy.

But they also suggest a more general lesson: fictionalist theses can often be undercut by closer attention to the semantics of the discourse in question.

This raises the more general issue of whether arguments and theses in philosophy of mind (and other areas of philosophy) that are formulated in terms of physicalism are necessarily formulated in that way.

The thesis is also open to more general theoretical challenges.

It immediately follows from this thesis that ideal space is more general than real space (N.6b).