Sentence examples for weak thesis from inspiring English sources

For a different defense of the weak thesis, see Thomasson 2009.

The progenitor of the modern version of the thesis is Baxter (1988a, 1988b, 2001) but it is most often discussed under the formulation of it given by Lewis (1991), who first considers the strong thesis before rejecting it in favour of the weak thesis.

Here is an example of a weak thesis statement: Pollution is a problem in the world today.

It should be noted that some philosophers (e.g. McDowell) who accept one or another of these weak theses are commonly considered to be 'externalists' by themselves or others, because of their rejection of any stronger, more interesting, internalist thesis.

The first drafts generally have weaker thesis statements, and I have to go back to review what makes a good one.

But the traditional considerations in favor of compositionality support the weaker thesis only.

Then we can try out (in the next section) a weaker thesis: that death and posthumous events cannot affect us in a way that is bad for us.

Other arguments are narrower in scope and aim to establish a weaker thesis: that certain kinds of haecceitistic differences are spurious.

This is not a weaker thesis concerning variation on the level of inflection, where the underlying structure of the "Why?"-question is causal.

A strong Similarity Thesis might contend that some dreams are experientially indistinguishable from waking, even subsequent to waking-up; a weaker thesis might contend merely that dreams seem similar to waking while having them, but not upon waking.

For example, all versions of necessitism must reject unqualified "essentialist" theses such as the view that a person is necessarily a person; at most, one can perhaps maintain the weaker thesis that a person is necessarily if concrete, a person.