Sentence examples for thesis contends from inspiring English sources

(His doctoral thesis contends that "man's interest in space travel is motivated not by curiosity but narcissism").

In the philosophy of mind, the multiple realizability thesis contends that a single mental kind (property, state, event) can be realized by many distinct physical kinds.

In the third antinomy, the thesis contends that in addition to mechanistic causality, we must posit some first uncaused causal power (Transcendental Freedom), while the antithesis denies anything but mechanistic causality.

But he denies that his own story contradicts his thesis, contending that by letting in a token number of students from the lower classes, the system maintains the illusion of meritocracy.

In fact, the British artist is so interested in the interplay of art and technology that he co-authored the Hockney-Falco thesis, which contends that Renaissance painters relied on cameras (obscura and lucida) when creating their work.

The book, a sequel of sorts to the author's 2009 campaign book, "Renegade," is also constricted by a highly schematic thesis, which contends that Mr. Obama's aides are divided into "two powerful and self-righteous camps," and that those camps represent warring sides of the president's own personality.

A strong Similarity Thesis might contend that some dreams are experientially indistinguishable from waking, even subsequent to waking-up; a weaker thesis might contend merely that dreams seem similar to waking while having them, but not upon waking.

He contends that Mr. Ackman's thesis is "preposterous".

In his foreword to Eco's book, the scholar Francesco Erspamer contends that "How to Write a Thesis" continues to resonate with readers because it gets at "the very essence of the humanities".

Acknowledging that the thesis of airports as 'non-places' has been a useful provocation, the article contends that airports are in fact distinct spaces with particular kinds of atmosphere (of emotions, affects, passionate intensities).

With a new thesis directed against Thomas Aquinas, as well as against his own Thomistic thinking prior to 1302, Eckhart contends that the absolute principle (or the absolute cause: God) is pure intellect and not being.