Sentence examples for the second thesis from inspiring English sources

The second thesis is more surprising.

The reasoning behind the second thesis is murky.

Compare the second thesis I suggested in § 1 above was part of the rationale behind universal hylomorphism.

The first thesis can easily be recast so as to be unacceptable unless the second thesis is accepted.

The second thesis, that the Tarski biconditionals are all there is to say about truth, captures something similar to the redundancy theory's view.

According to the second thesis, it is characteristic of the objects towards which the mind is directed by virtue of intentionality that they have the property which Brentano calls intentional inexistence.

Sharply to be distinguished from this first thesis of the Unity of Science is a second that formulates a reductionism of a very different type: whereas the first thesis concerns the unity of the observational basis of all the sciences, the second proposes (tentatively) a unity of the explanatory principles of science.

But it must be admitted that in contrast to the first thesis (which, by comparison is almost trivial), the second, being a bold conjecture about future reductions in the sciences, was arguably limited in the scope of its validity.

The reason that "Capital" looks more like a work of economics than like a work of philosophy — the reason that it is filled with tables and charts rather than with syllogisms — is the reason given in the eleventh thesis on Feuerbach: the purpose of philosophy is to understand conditions in order to change them.

He made an annual visit to Pound in the mental hospital, wrote the first thesis on Joyce to be accepted by Oxford [1950] but, unlike many American literary critics, he was also a classicist; the range of his reading is astonishing and he always makes the most enlivening connections between writers, philosophers and artists.

Let us turn to the first thesis.