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We have been trained over the years to develop a strong thesis with support to back it up.
Shorto overreaches at times in the interest of advancing a strong thesis and weaving an engaging tale.
The strong thesis is that rather than being confirmed or disconfirmed by independent evidence, theories determine what will count as evidence.
So why not hold the strong thesis?
The unity thesis is a very strong thesis.
(He combined this view with another strong thesis, that all mental states are conscious).
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Others (Penner, Woodruff) have argued for a stronger thesis, such that the definitions of all the virtues would have a common essence.
Shoemaker's challenge to inner sense views requires a stronger thesis, namely that rational beings must be capable of self-knowledge in order to exist at all.
Standpoint theorists, and many who are inspired by standpoint theory, not only maintain Haraway's situated knowledge thesis, conceptualizing all knowledge as perspectival, but also hold a stronger thesis that some of those perspectives are epistemically more valuable than others.
But the function argument concludes that justice is both necessary and sufficient for happiness (354a), and this is a considerably stronger thesis than the claim that the just are always happier than the unjust.
One might think that if the general instrumental value of true belief was moot then so too would be the intuitively stronger thesis that true belief is generally finally valuable.
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