"His basic thesis appears to be that people who are religious are irrational, and that irrational people do strange things".
His thesis appears to hold that cancers that he cannot attribute to a cause must therefore be down to no cause – ie "bad luck".
The central thesis appears to be that intense competitive pressures have pushed designers, owners and crews beyond the limits of sanity, whereas traditional designs are altogether more seaworthy.
To many, including disability groups, Perkins's thesis appears to be nothing more than eugenics, a programme to try to "breed out welfare dependency" and, essentially, poverty, arguing that parents, rather than poverty, damage children.
Sadly, the greatest judge of his generation is no longer able to hear my plea in mitigation - which is that, powerful advocate as Bingham was, he made his thesis appear so sensible, so obvious, that nobody could have thought there was anything new in it.
This thesis appears to threaten the "rational authority" of morality.
The opening statement, the paradoxical thesis, appears to be a syntactic contradiction.
The logicist thesis appears to have been first advocated in the late seventeenth century by Gottfried Leibniz.
Such a thesis appears to be a principle of inertia, and, indeed, Spinoza seems to invoke a principle of inertia in the terms he uses at IIIp6.
