Hicheur's thesis was relevant to a particular theoretical debate, says Yannis Karyotakis, a physicist at the Annecy-le-vieux Laboratory for Physicse Physics (LAPP) who was Hicheur's thesis director.
If the foregoing is right, then it becomes unclear how the first direct realist thesis is relevant to the epistemological issue of what reason or justification we have for thinking that our perceptual beliefs about the material world are true — and thus unclear how it yields any reason for the second direct realist thesis.
Our results do support an endogenous interpretation, but none of the explanations typically associated with this thesis prove relevant to the Andapa case.
Credit is given for supervising PhD students: i) where the subject matter of the thesis is relevant to the research interests of the organization; ii) where the supervision occurs during all or part of the year in question.
The universality thesis is strongly relevant to this work because it implies universality for the proposed model; the thesis, however, still receives criticism [14].
The first Ambrose page number provided is from the thesis manuscript; the relevant page number from the book version follows the citation.
So it is tempting to use 'physicalism' to distance oneself from what seems a historically important but no longer scientifically relevant thesis of materialism, and related to this, to emphasize a connection to physics and the physical sciences.
In this context, it is pertinent to mention the efforts by Rzepa and Peter Murray-Rust for developing tools to parse chemically relevant thesis and other published articles for harvesting analytical data [10, 11].
Ockham's nominalism does not require the elimination of simple connotative concepts after all; its main relevant thesis, on the contrary, is that their use is ontologically harmless since they do not signify (either primarily or secondarily) anything but individual things, as their nominal definitions are supposed to make it clear.
The search strategy involved identification of keywords (medical subjects' headings), synonyms, relevant theses and dissertations, and sources of grey literature.
