During the trip to Israel, Lanzmann had received a lesson in Jewish identity, and decided that Sartre's book — in particular, its thesis that "it is the anti-Semite who creates the Jew" — was in need of revision.
"Macedonia wants to advance the thesis that it is a cornerstone of Western civilization".
Impossibility theorem, also called Arrow's theorem, in political science, the thesis that it is generally impossible to assess the common good.
Bering's argument makes heavy use of paedophiles, supporting his thesis that it's not what you think or desire but what you do that should be judged.
The argument consequently fails to establish the overall plausibility of motivational hedonism, let alone the thesis that it is the most plausible theory of motivation.
"We are incredibly excited to continue building on our thesis that it is possible to achieve outsized returns by investing in women," said Duggal, in a statement.
If the supervenience thesis we need to explain is conceptual, then even the truth of non-contingent nihilism the thesis that it is metaphysically impossible for ethical properties to be instantiated would not do the relevant explanatory work.
To complete our account of Protagoras' views on language and reality we need to mention the thesis that it is impossible to say what is false, which occurs in three Platonic passages, Euthydemus 284a c, Theaetetus 188d 189a and Sophist 236e 237e.
Perhaps the most controversial thesis to come out of these programs is the thesis that it is more natural, a la biology, for stepfathers to abuse their stepchildren than their genetic children on account of selection pressures that weighed on our Pleistocene ancestors.
The good-first theory corresponds to the thesis that states of affairs are the "primary bearers" of value; the value-first theory corresponds to the alternative thesis that it is things like pleasure or goodness (or perhaps their instances) that are the "primary bearers" of value.
