Toward the end of the Preliminary Theses, after affirming that all science must be grounded in nature, and that doctrines not so grounded remain purely "hypothetical," Feuerbach had gone on to note that this is especially true of the doctrine of freedom, and he had assigned to the new philosophy the task of "naturalizing freedom" (VT 262/172).
In the medieval classroom, for all its emphasis on tradition-bound hierarchy and order, a contrary force came into play, one that unleashed the charisma of talented individuals: the disputation, in which a respondent affirmed the thesis under discussion and an opponent attempted to refute it.
Janusz Kurtyka, president of the Institute of National Remembrance at the time, staunchly affirmed the thesis of the book while admitting that it does not contain a "hundred-percent" proof that Wałęsa was the agent Bolek, as some of the documents went missing during Wałęsa's presidency of Poland (1990 1995).
To strengthen the thesis of miR-155 regulated IL2 signalling, we also affirmed a significant down-regulation of IL2 mRNA expression in miR-155 inhibitor transfected human CD4+ Th cells (data not shown).
The issue of how to interpret the CCC thesis, however, is at the center of the dispute between the two sides that accept the CCC thesis, namely those who affirm genuine creaturely causation despite accepting the CCC thesis for instance, concurrentists like Leibniz— and those who deny creaturely causation because they accept CCC such as Malebranche.
What caught my eye was a quote affirming this thesis from Mike DuHaime, a top political strategist for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is perhaps the most significant elected official to endorse Romney.
Wylie thus affirms the thesis of epistemic privilege although she notes that such epistemic privilege is contingent.
In his polls, though, Zogby deploys questions asking respondents to judge the Islamic Republic and its policies in artificial isolation from U.S. and Israeli practices, effectively guaranteeing results affirming his thesis.
We have to acknowledge that this disciplinary boundary work can only be affirmed when a classificatory logic, based on C. P. Snow's famous thesis of the 'Two Cultures' (Snow, 1971[1959]; 1971[1963]), guides us.
The tension being discussed here could be resolved if we were to accept a certain sort of internalist thesis about moral norms, a thesis that Michael Smith calls "rationalism" (Smith 1994, p. 62), though it would need to be affirmed in a somewhat stronger form than that which Smith affirms.
