All 7 Uses
thesis
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Sophie's World
(Edited)
- The Eleatics had put forward a claim, and Hegel called a standpoint like that a thesis.
Chpt 26thesis = an unproved statement put forward as a premise for discussion
- He also called these three stages of knowledge thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
Chpt 26
- You could, for example, say that Descartes's rationalism was a thesis—which was contradicted by Hume's empirical antithesis.
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- They proposed a thesis.
Chpt 26thesis = unproved statement put forward as a premise for discussion
- Kierkegaard had written a master of arts thesis on Socrates.
Chpt 28thesis = research paper
- About the same time, Marx had written a doctoral thesis on Democritus and Epicurus—in other words, on the materialism of antiquity.
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- In The Origin of Species, Darwin advanced two theories or main theses: first, he proposed that all existing vegetable and animal forms were descended from earlier, more primitive forms by way of a biological evolution.
Chpt 29theses = unproved statements put forward as a premises for discussion
Definitions:
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(1)
(thesis as in: the thesis of her editorial) a proposition (unproved statement or theory) put forward as a premise for evaluation
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(thesis as in: her Master's thesis) a formal and lengthy research paper advancing a new point of view -- usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of thesis that are used in such areas as music, poetry, and philosophy.