The real question is: Is Pinker's overall thesis true?

While most scholars today reject Beard's overall thesis, he initiated a new method of economic and political thought that would evolve into contemporary constitutional economics analysis.

Other social scientists agree on the need for women to gain economic rights, although some dispute aspects of Dr. Caldwell's overall thesis.

The book is composed in three sections, each one more or less independent, but contributing to the development of his overall thesis.

According to Stern, his "overall thesis that we are already seeing widespread effects of climate change is sound and supported by much robust scientific evidence".

Though I do not recant everything, including the book's overall thesis, I now concede that I totally underplayed the value of the education itself.

The book also touches on phone-hacking and WikiLeaks too briefly to incorporate them convincingly into the overall thesis.

And in another chapter, he offers up an interesting but discursive discussion about plagiarism that does little to illuminate his overall thesis.

Because Reynolds's overall thesis is so amorphous, his book has to rise and fall on its storytelling and scope.

For example the fact that 57 per cent of current spending on acute in-patients in the NHS is devoted to the "unproductive" over-65s hardly supports the overall thesis.