The Better Angels of Our Nature takes a thesis I would love to believe; indeed, have casually believed for most of my life.
A thesis needs to "take a stand" on the issue or topic that you're discussing.
Insurers, goes the latest thesis, will take a big hit from claims now, but in the future they will get rich from higher premiums and increased demand for their product.
(Typically, quidditism is taken as a thesis about fundamental or "sparse" properties like mass and charge rather than as a thesis about all properties whatsoever).
One interesting feature of (Fcofinal) is that it appears to be in conflict with a Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation (taken as a thesis that implies the indeterminacy of meaning).
Ross Douthat sees in the current debate a fine opportunity to revisit his thesis that Republicans should take a populist turn.
This latter thesis, Schmitt admits, can take a secular form, as in Hobbes or Machiavelli, as the purely descriptive claim that man is inherently dangerous to man.
He then went to Bedford College in London and took a real MA, producing a thesis based upon detailed medieval research.
It's an intriguing thesis taken a bit too far.
My thesis took a year and half to make, it was 35 grand, completely made by the book, a grueling and very satisfying experience.
