"this thesis appears" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
Example: As I read through different research papers, I have noticed a recurring theme - this thesis appears to have been a major influence on the field of psychology.
Although Avicenna does not employ this thesis to restrict the scope of causal power to God, his necessitation thesis appears to have played a role in the history of occasionalism insofar as it is a target of al-Ghazālī's "no necessary connection" argument, which is discussed below (in §3.2).
"His basic thesis appears to be that people who are religious are irrational, and that irrational people do strange things".
His thesis appears to hold that cancers that he cannot attribute to a cause must therefore be down to no cause – ie "bad luck".
The central thesis appears to be that intense competitive pressures have pushed designers, owners and crews beyond the limits of sanity, whereas traditional designs are altogether more seaworthy.
To many, including disability groups, Perkins's thesis appears to be nothing more than eugenics, a programme to try to "breed out welfare dependency" and, essentially, poverty, arguing that parents, rather than poverty, damage children.
The opening statement, the paradoxical thesis, appears to be a syntactic contradiction.
The logicist thesis appears to have been first advocated in the late seventeenth century by Gottfried Leibniz.
Such a thesis appears to be a principle of inertia, and, indeed, Spinoza seems to invoke a principle of inertia in the terms he uses at IIIp6.
The inference from the immediacy thesis appears to go through only if you employ a notion of immediacy stronger than the one Hume, for example, takes himself to be defending when he claims (in a passage quoted in section1.1) that "in many orders of beauty, particularly those of the fine arts, it is requisite to employ much reasoning, in order to feel the proper sentiment" (Hume 1751, 173).
The central part of her thesis appears to be that when "government runs business" which is "the way Obama wants to do it," you get stuff she doesn't like, so poop on all of that.
