The court flatly rejected this thesis, saying the Kremlin's lawyers had been "unable to provide any explanation of the mechanism by which a minor could be enticed into '[a] homosexual lifestyle,' let alone science-based evidence that one's sexual orientation or identity was susceptible to change under external influence".
The cultural cognition thesis says that many contested issues of risk from climate change to nuclear power, from gun control to the HPV vaccine involve this same dynamic.
In 1971, the art critic Linda Nochlin wrote an influential essay entitled Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? "Its main thesis," says Nochlin, "was an attack on the idea that genius is innate, something you are born with.
One logical thesis says it has to.
"It was a pretty cool thesis," says Bush, who graduated in June and took a job at Schlumberger designing products for oil wells.
Her narrative fabrication thesis says that dream reports are in fact often the product of confabulation and fail to accurately describe experiences occurring during sleep.
Coined in 1970 by roboticist Masahiro Mori, the Uncanny Valley thesis says that as an object gets more lifelike, people feel more empathetic and warm toward it.
As I paraphrased it, the internal reasons thesis says that "we cannot have genuine reasons to act that have no connection whatever with anything that we care about".
A simple thesis, known as the Lockean thesis, says that one should believe a proposition A just in case one's degree of belief for A is sufficiently high ('should' takes wide scope over 'just in case').
The state fiscal situation may be dismal, but Whitney's thesis says that a future crisis won't be cause by states directly, since they have a safety net from the federal government.
