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.

The Vasojevići were proud of Karađorđe and saw him as their sprout, Montenegrin minister and Vasojević, Gavro Vuković, supported the thesis.

On one side were those who supported Franz Neumann's thesis according to which National Socialism was a form of " monopoly capital "; on the other were those who supported Fritz Pollock's " state capitalist theory.

Wollaston supported this theory by referring to the thesis of a young medical student at Edinburgh, Charles Darwin ( 1758-1778 ), " Experiments establishing a criterion between mucaginous and purulent matter.

" He held that corollarial deduction matches Aristotle's conception of direct demonstration, which Aristotle regarded as the only thoroughly satisfactory demonstration, while theorematic deduction ( A ) is the kind more prized by mathematicians, ( B ) is peculiar to mathematics, and ( C ) involves in its course the introduction of a lemma or at least a definition uncontemplated in the thesis ( the proposition that is to be proved ); in remarkable cases that definition is of an abstraction that " ought to be supported by a proper postulate.

Though the book does not present his argument specifically, the assumed thesis is supported through in-depth content analysis of various singers ( performers of the oral tradition or composition process ) and interviews of the same singers.

This thesis achieved wide credence at the time, but the Massacre at Huế came under increasing press scrutiny later, when press reports exposed that South Vietnamese " revenge squads " had also been at work in the aftermath of the battle, searching out and executing citizens that had supported the communist occupation.

These occurrences shocked Mao, who had supported Stalin ideologically and politically, because Khrushchev was dismantling Mao ’ s support of the USSR with public rejections of most of Stalin ’ s leadership and actions — such as announcing the end of the Cominform, and ( most troubling to Mao ), de-emphasising the core Marxist – Leninist thesis of inevitable war between capitalism and socialism.

Until recently, Fraccaro's thesis was not widely accepted because of the prevailing 1960s theory of Andreas Alföldi that Rome was an insignificant settlement until c. 500 BC and could not therefore have supported such a powerful army ( or cavalry ) in the regal era.

Thus, from the point of view of strict mathematical description, the thesis that everything is a computing system in this second sense cannot be supported ".

Bruguière counselled Italian senator Paolo Guzzanti ( Forza Italia ), in charge of the Mitrokhin Commission, endorsing the old thesis, once supported by the CIA, according to which the Soviet Union was behind Mehmet Ali Agca's 1981 assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.

At first glance, at least, the " basic " beliefs of the foundationalist would appear to be counterexamples to the evidentialist's thesis, in that they are justified beliefs that are not rational because they are supported by deeper evidence.

Other historians in Egypt supported this thesis, and even expanded on it, sometimes suffering government censure.

In the thesis, he also supported the illegality of abortion in USSR, claiming it wasn't practised anymore there.

The thesis of Servando Teresa de Mier was opposed to dividing the territory into independent states, considering that this would weaken the nation, which needed unity to counter any attempted reconquest by Spain, which would be supported by other European nations.

A " North Etruscan " thesis is supported by the inscription on the Negau helmet dating to the second century BC This is in a northern Etruscan alphabet, but features a Germanic name, Harigast.

The Bosnia question was the subject of his research and the thesis that the Prince presented and supported publicly.

Since 1993, the German Association of Engineers ( Verein Deutscher Ingenieure or VDI ) has presented students with the Gustav Zeuner Award for the best engineering thesis in Germany ; Zeuner supported the Dresden branch of the VDI at its foundation in 1897.

Dumézil supported the thesis of a marriage without loss the independent status of the woman ( sine capitis deminutio ).

After presenting his sources, Rabbi Kaplan remarks, " We therefore find the basic thesis of the Sefer HaBris supported by a number of clear-cut statements by our Sages.

Gruner's thesis is supported by the fact that shortly after the release of the men held in the Rosenstraße building, some 200 of them were appointed as officials of the Reichsvereinigung.

He makes convincing arguments against the thesis supported by Hockney's book “ Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters ” that optical projection techniques aided many artist's paintings beginning in the early 15th century, particularly beginning some time between 1420 – 1595, citing variously Fabriano, Jan van Eyck, Pisanello, Mantegna, Melozzo di Forli, Cranach, Raphael and Moroni.

Woodrow formerly supported the thesis of 19th century Presbyterian churchman, Alexander Hislop, that Roman Catholicism is a syncretistic pagan religion in his book Babylon Mystery Religion and gained a certain notoriety when he changed his view and pulled the work from circulation.

In contrast to the functionalists who have argued for the " weak dictator " thesis about Hitler's power, Jäckel has supported the " master of the Third Reich " thesis and has described Hitler's power as Alleinherrschaft ( sole rule ).

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 ).