However, interpretivism is a thesis about the grounds of legal obligation, which purports to compete with the two-stage and other such theses, not a thesis merely about the force of the obligations that institutional practice constitutes in some nonmoral way.
Alternatively, one may argue that the relevant metaphysical theses are merely contingent (see, e.g., Cameron 2007).
Annotations in copies belonging to Kepler and to his teacher lead Gingerich to the discovery that the Copernicus book's opening disclaimer -- insisting the thesis is merely hypothetical -- had not been written or subscribed to by the Polish astronomer.
Her thesis is merely that free will and determinism are incompatible.
Their reason, it seems, is that there is a distinction between citing positive empirical evidence for a thesis and merely eliminating the contrary possibility by a priori methods.
While that reaction was predictable if you're familiar with how the internet normally handles issues of race, Jerry's basic thesis was merely that he's only concerned with what's funny.
A strong Similarity Thesis might contend that some dreams are experientially indistinguishable from waking, even subsequent to waking-up; a weaker thesis might contend merely that dreams seem similar to waking while having them, but not upon waking.
That is, the thesis is not merely that I am only sometimes conscious of my desires in the same way that I am only sometimes conscious of my toes.
In fact, LeBlanc and Wang's thesis here is merely a restatement of our own conclusions: The present effects of mixtures cannot be assigned to the categories of concentration additive or response additive.
The alternatives included a more moderate realism propounded by the American philosopher Robert Stalnaker which denies Lewis's homogeneity thesis (the claim that merely possible worlds are entities of the same kind as the actual world), as well as fictionalism, the view that possible-world theory is literally false but useful.
