In other words, the use of TurnItIn alone would have granted a good bill of health to three highly infected theses and declared another as having sniffles instead of pneumonia.
What matters for our purposes is not Carnap's sense of a commensurability between a metaphysical thesis about reality and a practical decision to speak only about observable things, but rather that he thinks he can explain how the illusion of meaningfulness arises for the metaphysical theses he declares "devoid of cognitive content".
Just like declaring a thesis in a term paper, a Web site has to scream the basics at all who land there.
True to thesis, they declare up front that reading a book, their book or any other, is never enough -- that one has to know how to act upon it.
As Antonio Gramsci pointed out, if Marx thought it would all come about automatically, then there was no need for his 11th thesis on Feuerbach, which declared that it was more important to change the world than to interpret it.
While a newly formed National Committee of Ethics declared the thesis in accordance with the academic regulations of the time, a separate investigation by the National Council for Attestation of Titles, Diplomas and University Certificates (CNATDCU) concluded that large chunks of the thesis had been copied without proper referencing.
The project was a main part of the MSc thesis of A.P. None declared.
When the question arose in a solemn quodlibetal disputation, the secular master Jean de Pouilly, for example, declared the Scotist thesis not only improbable but even heretical.
Unfortunately, such detailed specifications are relatively rare, and the usual strategy is for the sociological critique to proceed by invoking the general thesis of underdetermination and to declare that there are always rival ways of going on.
The author declares that this thesis is my original work and no anybody could claim for competing interest.
