But that is the thesis propounded by Jason Shogren, of the University of Wyoming, and his colleagues.
THE PRIME MINISTER: THE OFFICE AND ITS HOLDERS SINCE 1945.By Peter Hennessy.Allen Lane, The Penguin Press; 720 pages; £25FOR almost 40 years students of British politics have been debating the thesis propounded by the late Richard Crossman, an Oxford don and Labour minister, that cabinet government has been superseded by prime ministerial or quasi-presidential rule.
A general thesis propounded by Hartmann is that ideal being is incomplete being, and for this reason it is more general than real being (G.38; A.31a).
As ever, this most outwardly gentle of musicians has a thesis to propound.
But the thesis Mr Sen propounded in that book was not obvious at all: some of the worst famines, he argued, have taken place without any significant fall in the supply of food.One of the examples Mr Sen chose to illustrate his thesis was a famine that gathered force from 1968 to 1973 in the Sahel region of Africa.
After some 30 years of incisive intervention in Platonic scholarship, Holger Thesleff here offers us "an attempt to elaborate and ground more firmly some basic theses which I have propounded in various contexts before," (1) a rather modest description of what he also describes as an attempt to contribute toward "a more general agreement on how to read and interpret Plato" (5).
There may have been just a shade of the sensational in the manner in which Dupont-Sommer originally propounded his thesis in connection with the Habakkuk Commentary.
The thesis has frequently been propounded that there are different types of space: the space of physical forces, the vital space of organisms, and the space of historical events (N.3d).
Darwin's Origin of Species, published in 1859, propounded two main theses: firstly, that modern species were descended from common ancestors, and secondly that the process of natural selection was the major mechanism of evolutionary change.
If it sometimes turned out that the development brought you to a point not so far from a thesis that he had already propounded, well, one had at least a new reason for taking that thesis seriously.
By its attempt to reduce the manifold to unity, it recalls the beginning of Greek philosophy, which was also inspired by a thesis of the unity of being, propounded by the Eleatic philosopher Parmenides.
