Important as was Mr. O'Donnell's essay, his thesis is so restricting as to deny Faulkner the stature which he obviously has.

Proceeding from Parry's conclusions and adopting one of his schemata, Francis P. Magoun, Jr., argues that Beowulf likewise was created from a legacy of oral formulas inherited and extended by bards of successive generations, and the thesis is striking and compelling.

An equally tenable thesis is that the dearth of new thought was created by the Senate's own penchant for crucifying anyone whose ideas seem unorthodox to the next generation.

Sprinkel strongly refuted the current neo-stagnationist thesis that we are facing a future of limited and slow growth, declaring that this pessimism `` is based on very limited and questionable evidence ''.

It will be recalled from the discussion in Section 7 that the position of the `` right '', as represented by Barth, rests on the following thesis: The only tenable alternative to Bultmann's position is a theology that ( 1 ) rejects or at least qualifies his unconditioned demand for demythologization and existential interpretation ; ;

The embarrassment of these theories over the naturalness of death is an illustration of the thesis that death cannot be only a punishment, for some termination seems necessary in a life that is lived within the natural order of time and change.

A related concept in descriptive ethics is psychological egoism, the thesis that humans always act in their own self-interest and that true altruism is impossible.

Gurevich: "... Turing's informal argument in favor of his thesis justifies a stronger thesis: every algorithm can be simulated by a Turing machine ... according to Savage, an algorithm is a computational process defined by a Turing machine ".

True to his empirical thesis, Hume tells the reader that, though testimony does have some force, it is never quite as powerful as the direct evidence of the senses.

The Pilgrim's reference is a basis for the Church of Zion, Jerusalem thesis of Bagatti ( 1976 ) and Testa, though the archeological evidence may suggest only a later Crusader church.

The letter is influential in supporting the thesis of the early-modern Military Revolution.

*# The second basic thesis is that intellectual freedom is essential to human society — freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices.

This work is rooted in the thesis that Judaism is a religion of time, not space, and that the Sabbath symbolizes the sanctification of time.

For each of these a thesis is contradicted by an antithesis.

This is a manifest contradiction because infinity cannot, by definition, be completed by " successive synthesis " -- yet just such a finalizing synthesis would be required by the view that time is infinite ; so the thesis is proven.

The “ north-bank ” thesis of F. L. Lucas, based on his 1921 solo field-trip to Thessaly, is now, however, broadly accepted by historians.

Graduate students in turn compete for acceptance into a BTP ; if accepted then stipend, tuition and health insurance support is provided for two or three years during the course of their Ph. D. thesis work.

This thesis is supported by the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, explaining that the Turko-Mongol name Timur underwent a similar evolution, from the Sanskrit word cimara (" iron ") via a modified version * čimr to the final Turkicized version timür, with-ür replacing-r due to the Turkish vowel harmony ( hence babr → babür ).

In Kozol ’ s view, Hearst ’ s omission confirmed the prosecution ’ s thesis: returning the embrace of the SLA, she had ceased to be a victim.

However this thesis was not confirmed by the extensive study on the causes of the collapse of the Soviet Union by two prominent economists from the World Bank-William Easterly and Stanley Fischer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The issue of linearity versus threshold re-entered the debate on nuclear fallout in 1962, when Ernest Sternglass, a Pittsburgh physicist, argued that the linearity thesis was confirmed by the research of Alice Stewart.

It was confirmed when French political scientist Gaïdz Minassian was allowed to consult the archives of ARF for his doctoral thesis.

Philosophies then are always responses to contingent questions, they are ‘ ontologies of actuality ,’ a thesis that can be confirmed by the historico-cultural links of particular philosophies.

The primary reason for the abandonment of the `` shore occupied by '' thesis has been the assimilation and accumulation of archaeological evidence, the most striking feature of early English studies in this century.

Structured programming, canonical structures: Per the Church-Turing thesis any algorithm can be computed by a model known to be Turing complete, and per Minsky's demonstrations Turing completeness requires only four instruction types — conditional GOTO, unconditional GOTO, assignment, HALT.

Between 1949 and 1953 he worked on his doctoral thesis in this subject at Nancy, supervised by Jean Dieudonné and Laurent Schwartz.

For example: in the First Antinomy, Kant proves the thesis that time must have a beginning by showing that if time had no beginning, then an infinity would have elapsed up until the present moment.

This was followed independently by Louis Bachelier in 1900 in his PhD thesis " The theory of speculation ", in which he presented a stochastic analysis of the stock and option markets.

The thesis that the Third Reich went to war on the basis of " blitzkrieg economics " was criticized by Richard Overy in the 1980s and Historian George Raudzens highlighted the many, somewhat conflicting, senses in which historians have used the word.

Francis Jennings noted that the statement made by Benjamin Franklin frequently quoted by proponents of the thesis does not support for this idea as it is advocating for a union against these " ignorant savages " and called the idea " absurd ".

Arens bases his thesis on a detailed analysis of numerous " classic " cases of cultural cannibalism cited by explorers, missionaries, and anthropologists.

The completeness of quantum mechanics ( thesis 1 ) was attacked by the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought experiment which was intended to show that quantum physics could not be a complete theory.

Early landmarks of the secondary literature include the monographs by Buchler ( 1939 ), Feibleman ( 1946 ), and Goudge ( 1950 ), the 1941 Ph. D. thesis by Arthur W. Burks ( who went on to edit volumes 7 and 8 ), and the studies edited by Wiener and Young ( 1952 ).

His doctoral thesis was titled, " The density spectrum and latitude dependence of extensive cosmic ray air showers.

* An extensive master thesis on biopiracy by Johan Ragnar, Sweden

Research based Masters degrees are usually accompanied by an extensive thesis before completion.

Brand who has published an extensive biography on this Pharaoh and his numerous works, stresses in his thesis that relief decorations at various temple sites at Karnak, Qurna and Abydos which associate Ramesses II with Seti I, were actually carved after Seti's death by Ramesses II himself and, hence, cannot be used as source material to support a co-regency between the two monarchs.

In Pakistan, at undergraduate level the thesis is usually called final year project, as it is completed in the senior year of the degree, the name project usually implies that the work carried out is less extensive than a thesis and bears lesser credit hours too.

In Portugal, a thesis is examined with an oral defense, which includes an initial presentation by the candidate followed by an extensive questioning / answering period.

The program concluded usually after five years with the final examination and a thesis ( Diplomarbeit ) which usually is an extensive project of a current practical or scientific aspect of the profession.

His thesis project, " The Harlem Group of Negro Writers ", was based on his extensive interviews with members of the Harlem Renaissance.

He has done extensive anthropological work in Madagascar, writing his doctoral thesis ( The Disastrous Ordeal of 1987: Memory and Violence in Rural Madagascar ) on the continuing social division between the descendants of nobles and the descendants of former slaves.

:" The most extensive scholarly treatment of Back to Methuselah is H. M. Geduld's six-volume variorum edition of the play submitted as a doctoral thesis at Birkbeck College, University of London ( 1961 ).

During the senior year, each student writes an extensive thesis dealing with an issue discussed by two classic authors.

He has done extensive anthropological work in Madagascar, writing his doctoral thesis ( The Disastrous Ordeal of 1987: Memory and Violence in Rural Madagascar ) on the continuing social division between the descendants of nobles and the descendants of former slaves.