The "social causation" thesis states that socioeconomic factors affect health through a number of intermediate causal pathways, while the health selection" thesis points to processes of 'direct' or 'indirect' selection through people with poor health or low health potential are more likely to move down the social hierarchy [ 45, 46].
McKeown's thesis states that the enormous increase in population and dramatic improvements in health that humans have experienced over the past two centuries owe more to changes in broad economic and social conditions than to specific medical advances or public health initiatives.
His thesis, stated ironically with Karl Marx's categories, is that in the second half of the 20th century, America left the "realm of necessity" and entered the "realm of freedom".
Following decisions on five individual cases the court followed up in June with general ruling, known as a jurisprudential thesis, stating that laws restricting marriage to heterosexual couples were discriminatory and unconstitutional.
Such a notion is consistent with prior work, including Allport's (1985) thesis, stating that distributed assemblies of neurons firing in distinctive patterns represent conceptual knowledge.
This thesis denies that the states of mind conventionally expressed by moral utterances are beliefs or mental states which fall on the cognitive side of the cognitive/non-cognitive divide.
Similar positions have been held by Place (1954, 1956 , 1960, who primarily speaks of constitution rather than identity, whereas Smart explicitly stated this thesis in terms of identity (Smart 1959).
"Grinda stated he believes this thesis [by Litvinenko] to be accurate," the cable said.
Indeed, all three global supervenience theses stated above Jackson's, Lewis', and Chalmers' seem to serve these purposes.
He built upon Keynes's theory by developing the stagnation thesis, which states that, as an economy matures, opportunities for productive investment will diminish, which causes the economy's rate of growth to decrease.
