Sentence examples for thesis discussed from inspiring English sources

(Thus, Mackie is a moral projectivist, which is a thesis discussed at further length in supplement 3.1).

In particular, although the main proponents of the view that the alleged problem is a pseudo-problem clearly intended to attack (inter alia) Lewis's version of modal realism, they did not attempt to rebut the thesis (discussed in Section 1.2 above) that if one is a Lewisian realist about possible worlds, then one should find transworld identity problematic.

Then, raters who read the same thesis discussed how they rated it and looked for any discrepancies in their assessments.

Notice that the above ideas involve the direction of analysis thesis discussed above.

However, any such non-naturalist view of morality faces immediate difficulties, deriving ultimately from the kind of causal closure thesis discussed above.

As concerns differences between induction and deduction, one of these is dramatically illustrated in the problems with Williams' thesis discussed in section 4.2 below: This is that inductive conditional probability is not monotonic with respect to conditions: Adding conditions may increase or decrease the value of a conditional probability.

If we let being (identical to) X be an intrinsic property, then most of the supervenience theses discussed will be trivially true, because it will be impossible to have things that share all their intrinsic properties, but differ with respect to the contents of their beliefs, or the justificatory status of their beliefs, or their phenomenal states, or whatever.

Instead, let's go back to the verticalization thesis we discussed in "The Gap In Google's Defenses" and "How To Dig Out Yahoo!'s Treasures".

According to the second proposal (known as the Lockean thesis and discussed in section 2.6) an agent should believe a proposition if and only if her degree of belief for this proposition is higher than a certain threshold.

Moscow said it was "based on a series of shopworn and baseless theses actively discussed in foreign political and media circles".

The most prominent approach takes the mistake to be conceptual, which involves commitments similar to those taken on by defenders of the conceptual supervenience theses just discussed.