The Church-Turing thesis asserts that the informal notion of calculability is completely captured by the formal notion of recursive functions and hence, in theory, replicable by a machine.
Like the Intuition/Deduction thesis, the Innate Knowledge thesis asserts the existence of knowledge gained a priori, independently of experience.
The Social Thesis asserts that law is, profoundly, a social phenomenon, and that the conditions of legal validity consist of social that is, non-normative facts.
Harrison's thesis asserted that parts of the Hebrides had escaped the ice age.
It is this definition of continuity that figures in Aristotle's demonstration of what has come to be known as the isomorphism thesis, which asserts that either magnitude, time and motion are all continuous, or they are all discrete.
They put forward a "conditionality thesis" that asserts that although certain relationships are non-instrumentally valuable, all relationships are conditionally valuable.
The Innate Knowledge thesis joins the Intuition/Deduction thesis in asserting that we have a priori knowledge, but it does not offer intuition and deduction as the source of that knowledge.
In his incommensurability thesis, Kuhn asserted that the paradigm shift is not limited with the revision of an individual theory, but requires some structural differences.
Nevertheless, Luckett finds this thesis implausible, and asserts that "the unity of Messiah is a consequence of nothing more arcane than the quality of Handel's attention to his text, and the consistency of his musical imagination".
This complaint is based on the mistake (made by Scalia's fans from the other direction) of thinking that originalism is a method, a thesis that not only asserts a single meaning for the Constitution, but tells you exactly how to find it and thereby severely restricts what can be found.
The strong version of the thesis along this dimension instead asserts that it is always normatively or rationally defensible to retain any hypothesis in the light of any evidence whatsoever, but this latter, stronger version of the claim, Laudan suggests, is one for which no convincing evidence or argument has ever been offered.
