The place looked like the workroom for a hurried college thesis, assuming that the student had a thousand dollars a night to spend for a room with a view of the Public Garden.
When restating the thesis, assume that you have proven it over the course of the paper and don't make apologies or hedge, which will weaken the conclusion and thus the paper.
A few medical experts and journalists misrepresented the claims in the thesis,7 assumed that specialist credentials were required to criticise vaccination, and concluded that the thesis was substandard and wrong.
Since Ryan's charge so manifestly contradicts his own beliefs, it is clear that the campaign assumes the thesis for which I have been arguing — that Americans no longer expect or care about candidates making honest assertions in the public sphere.
First, [the credibility thesis] explicitly assumes that the commitment of the NWS [nuclear weapons states] to the ideal of disarmament lacks credibility, and implicitly assumes that the United States is both the most important locus of the problem and the key to its resolution.
McCarthy summarizes what he considers the refutation of Taylor's position, more or less as argued by Wallace's thesis: "Taylor has assumed a single-lined, inevitable flow from past to future — whereas, even considered logically, each point in this progression in fact splits, along the lines of possibility, into divergent strands".
One way to argue against the same-content thesis is to assume, or independently defend, a theory of belief content, and then offer a positive account of experience content that differs from it.
But a moment's thought will show that none of these arguments would remain cogent if the closure thesis were not assumed, and it were thus left open that some physical effects (the movement of matter in arms, perhaps, or the firings of the motor neurones which instigate those movements) were not determined by prior physical causes at all, but by sui generis mental causes.
New and interesting nuggets of knowledge you've stumbled upon are thesis worthy, assuming that they're relevant.
But, Parmenides assumes, this panpsychist thesis is absurd.
