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Interesting, but what are you supposed to do with this statement.  Is
it your composition or the committee's?

And what does a defense of it look like?

Cheers!

Bruce

Quoting "Igor S." :

> PhD candidates in the Netherlands, in addition to dissertation, must
> prepare a number of concise propositions/statements (in dutch
> *Stellingen* ) in a form of attachment.Traditionally part of it does
> not need to be directly related to the main content of dissertation.
> The idea behind is that a PhD candidate is able to defend these
> statements in public if he will be asked for (in practice it never
> happens).Here is the 7-th *stelling* from my PhD thesis (2009):*7.
> Two things are only whispered when one talks seriously about
> sailing: celestial navigation and the harshest waters of Cape
> Horn.*kind regards,Igor

   

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