* Critical legal studies is a younger theory of jurisprudence that has developed since the 1970s which is primarily a negative thesis that the law is largely contradictory and can be best analyzed as an expression of the policy goals of the dominant social group.

However, the formula, abstract-negative-concrete, suggests a flaw, or perhaps an incomplete-ness, in any initial thesis — it is too abstract and lacks the negative of trial, error and experience.

While Aquinas felt positive and negative theology should be seen as dialetical correctives to each other, like thesis and antithesis producing a synthesis, Lossky argues, based on his reading of Dionysius and Maximus Confessor, that positive theology is always inferior to negative theology, a step along the way to the superior knowledge attained by negation.

This thesis of negative capability is a key component in Unger's theory of false necessity and formative context.

Social theorist and legal philosopher Roberto Mangabeira Unger developed the thesis of negative capability to address this problem of agency in relation to structure.

George Orwell responded with both praise and criticism, stating, " in the negative part of Professor Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth.

He is best known for his negative solution of Hilbert's tenth problem, presented in his doctoral thesis, at LOMI ( the Leningrad Department of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics ).

The " extended mind thesis " ( EMT ) refers to an emerging concept that addresses the question as to the division point between the mind and the environment by promoting the view of active externalism.

Instead of a thesis, MMin students participate in a practicum “ that specifically addresses the needs of a Christian community .” On June 27, 2011, Heritage Christian University announced that the school had been approved to offer the Master of Divinity degree.

This then poses a problem for mental causation if one believes in the supervenience thesis of physicalism.

" The structure of a dissertation consists in an introduction that elucidates the basic definitions involved in the question as set, followed by an argument or thesis, a counter-argument or antithesis, and a resolving argument or synthesis that is not a compromise between the former but the production of a new argument, ending with a conclusion that does not sum up the points but opens onto a new problem.

In 1892 Lyapunov defended his doctoral thesis The general problem of the stability of motion.

... pecifically, Morris's central thesis that the Arab refugee problem was " born of war, not by design " is belied by his own evidence which shows that Palestine's Arabs were expelled systematically and with premeditation.

For Overy, a major problem with the Mason thesis was that it rested on the assumption that in a way unrecorded by the records, that information was passed on to Hitler about the Reichs economic problems.

" Spare's work is contemporaneous with Hugo Ball's attempts " to rediscover the evangelical concept of the ' word ' ( logos ) as a magical complex image "— as well as with Walter Benjamin's thesis that " Mediation, which is the immediacy of all mental communication, is the fundamental problem of linguistic theory, and if one chooses to call this immediacy magic, then the primary problem of language is its magic.

Again his lack of fluency in Latin rendered him unable to hold the required public disputation of his thesis ; after much discussion, the University decided to bypass the problem by awarding him a honorary doctorate in February 1827.

While mechanically simple, the Church-Turing thesis implies that a Turing machine can solve any " reasonable " problem.

Bieberbach wrote a habilitation thesis in 1911 about groups of Euclidean motions – identifying conditions under which the group must have a translational subgroup whose vectors span the Euclidean space – that helped solve Hilbert's 18th problem.

His doctoral thesis studied a problem suggested by his teacher, Wilhelm Lenz.

In this work he proved a result fundamental for the n-body problem in astronomy, the thesis being published in Vol.

The thesis was dedicated to the problem of digital divide bridging as basis of the modern strategy of information society.

degree by the Oxford faculty of Literae Humaniores for a thesis on causation and the mind-body problem.

He attended the University of London, where he obtained his BSc in Mathematics and Physics in 1943, his MSc in Mathematics in 1945, and his PhD in Mathematical Physics in 1948, thesis title: The flexure problem in elasticity.

For Overy, a major problem with the Mason thesis was that it rested on the assumption that in a way unrecorded by the records, that information was passed on to Hitler about the Reichs economic problems.

Although he wrote the book alone, Heckscher was credited as co-developer of the model, because of his earlier work on the problem, and because many of the ideas in the final model came from Ohlin's doctoral thesis, supervised by Heckscher.

" The major problem with this thesis, as Yehuda Bauer points out, is that though this statement clearly commits Hitler to genocide, he made no effort after delivering this speech to have it carried out.

This thesis was put forward and defended by his readings of the early Christian philosopher Tertullian, who believed that famine and war were good for society as a whole as a means of solving the problem of overpopulation and resource-sharing.

Thus, the integrability of the problem of three point vortices on the plane was solved in the 1877 thesis of a young Swiss applied mathematician named Walter Gröbli.

For C < sup > 3 </ sup > solutions Hilbert's problem was answered positively by in his thesis, who showed that C < sup > 3 </ sup > solutions of nonlinear elliptic analytic equations in 2 variables are analytic.

thesis dealt with the problem of the overcoming of metaphysics in Heidegger and Carnap ; his Ph. D. dissertation was on the ethics of deconstruction in Emmanuel Levinas and Derrida.

The Believing Brain thesis also says that we have " the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention, and agency ", which Shermer calls ' agenticity '.

As indicated in the thesis, " Regardless of any fate that the agency faces in the future ..., it is clearly evident that ISNA, in the context of the Iranian media sphere and in comparison with other news sources in the country the period in between 1999-2005, rose as a new media phenomenon.

The thesis statement added, " ISNA was a new idea that turned into a reality and added another dimension to the news agency ’ s mission in the country.

Stealing Empire contends that the sometiimes simplistic cultural imperialism thesis in some scholarship about hip-hop beyond the US is limited when considering the artistic and political agency of activists and artists who hope to use hip-hop as a means to engage youth critically about their lives in South African townships.

On a cognitive construal, externalism is the thesis that what concepts ( or contents ) are available to a thinker is determined by their environment, or their relation to their environment.

:" My thesis is ," says, " That if we start with the supposition that there is only one primal stuff or material in the world, a stuff of which everything is composed, and if we call that stuff ' pure experience ,' then knowing can easily be explained as a particular sort of relation towards one another into which portions of pure experience may enter.

The thesis, in a nutshell, is that synergistic effects have often provided functional advantages ( economic benefits ) in relation to survival and reproduction that have been favored by natural selection.

Others have attempted to test the clash of civilisations thesis, finding it to be difficult to operationalise and that civilisational conflicts have not risen in intensity in relation to other ethnic conflicts since the end of the Cold War.

In 1977 he earned his doctorate in Darmstadt with a thesis on Die Gestalttheorie als wissenschaftliche Grundlage psychotherapeutischer Praxis und ihre Beziehung zu psychotherapeutischen Ansaetzen der Gegenwart (" The Gestalt theory as a scientific base for psychotherapy practice and its relation to contemporary approaches in psychotherapy ").

His thesis included an " Essay on the kinematical properties of stars in the solar vicinity: possible relation with the galactic spiral structure.

In 1883, Gustav defended his PhD thesis on " Resultate aus den in Pulkowa angestellen Vergleichungen von Procyon mit benachbarten Sternen " ( Results obtained in Pulkovo on relation of Procyon with the neighboring stars ).

The inconvenient fact that his major novel, Not of This time, Not of This Place, devotes elaborate attention to Wurzburg ( which is given the fictional name Weinburg ) is not allowed to trouble Gold's thesis of suppression, because the book is fiction, not poetry, and hence is thought somehow to belong to a different category in regard to the writer's relation to his early years.

Bernal's thesis discusses the perception of ancient Greece in relation to Greece's African and Asiatic neighbors, especially Ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians, which he believes had an influence on ancient Greece.

Leonard oversaw Fiedler's thesis ( a Marxist reading of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde ) and his dissertation ( an interpretation of Donne's poetry in relation to medieval thought ).

The book is based on Goodrick-Clarke's 1982 Ph. D. thesis The ariosophists of Austria and Germany 1890-1935: Reactionary political fantasy in relation to social anxiety.

Complexion, in its original sense, engaged the attention of philosophers and musical theorists from ancient times right through to the Renaissance and beyond, in relation to the most favourable balancing of the ' qualities ' or elements in order to heal and invigorate the soul: from Pythagoras and the musical theorist Aristoxenus, through Plato's dialogue Phaedo, Aristotle, Saint Augustine in his thesis on music, and Aquinas ; and in the Florentine Renaissance, Marsilio Ficino in his work on the immortality of the soul, the Theologia Platonica.

In thesis 24, Aetius outlines that it is within this ‘ element of loss ’ that makes privation inadequate in relation to the deity.

Aetius also goes on to describe the nature of the names of God and Jesus in thesis 17, and describes how Jesus not being referred to as “ God ” or the “ Father ”, is a clear indication of his inferiority in relation to God 14.