The journalists feared that he meant reporting to become dry and sterile, and in particular that they'd be required to test theses, as at Weekend World, rather than to report what they found.
But it is neither particularly original nor quite as radical a thesis as he seems to want to claim for his book.
But according to the thesis, as the object begins to look more human, familiarity turns to revulsion.
If it is an empirical psychological thesis, as it seems to be, then it is reasonable to expect application of the methods and evidence of empirical psychology, social inquiry, and perhaps also biological science, to do the main work of appraising it.
One of the admirable impulses behind How to Write a Thesis is this sense that Eco fully understands the many reasons for academic failure: from student poverty, through institutional obtuseness to the crushing "thesis neurosis" that afflicts the type – mea maxima culpa, as it happens – who "uses his thesis as an alibi to avoid other challenges in his life".
Smith proposed that thesis as an alternative to the then prevalent view called mercantilism, which favoured strict government control on international trade and relied on the principle that countries should produce as much of everything as possible.
His thesis, as such theses tend to do, focuses on the Great Pyramid, but also "embraces and unifies traditions of the origins of Egyptian civilisation, the builders of Stonehenge, and even gives a possible full explanation of the myth of 'Atlantis'".
And just as Carnap regarded the formal mode translations of philosophical theses as proposals to adopt a certain language form, Schlick contended that the solipsist's thesis was not a bona fide contingent claim but simply an attempt to introduce a particular mode of speech.
The method of ultrasonic peening treatment (UPT) was introduced in this thesis as a post-weld treatment to improve the fatigue strength of the welded structures.
Siegel may manipulate earnings until they conform to this thesis as much as he likes, but the true number lies somewhere well south of $71 ,and thus while some stocks are cheap today, the S&P 500 is not.
In 1936, Wedel published his 1930 master's thesis as the seminal An Introduction to Pawnee Archaeology.
