The thesis feels right, intuitively, but its cogency hinges on the details.
Moments like these make "How to Write a Thesis" feel like an instruction manual for finding one's center in a dizzying era of information overload.
He argues that we have been invaded by presentism that results in "a diminishment of anything that isn't happening right now—and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is". The thesis feels right, intuitively, but its cogency hinges on the details.
Although we had put much effort in the creation of our pitch, given the difficulty we had in crafting a unique thesis, we felt we were not able to create the best presentation and it showed in our performance.
As I was trying to decide the best home for the paper that came out of my master's thesis I felt really conflicted, wanting to make sure it was in an open access journal to show my support for open access to published research.
Noting that the book was "provocative" in its thesis, he felt that it was bound to raise many "hackles", and that it would lead future anthropologists to challenge other long-standing beliefs about non-western "primitive" societies, such as that of widespread incest and promiscuity.
Mr. Maraniss's efforts to articulate an original, overarching thesis can feel forced.
At Princeton, she wrote in her senior thesis, she sometimes felt "like a visitor on campus, as if I don't really belong".
Second, one might instead appeal to the epistemic thesis that the felt character of pain and pleasure gives us direct awareness, perception or apprehension of the badness of pain and the goodness of pleasure.
Frady has a thesis: that King "somehow felt, in his oldest moral workings, that he must continually experience sin to continuously know the soul-regenerating wonder of forgiveness and redemption".
