Noun(1) an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument(2) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree(3) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research(4) usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree [also: theses (pl)](5) belief(6) assumption to be tested(7) written dissertation
Noun(1) an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument(2) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research; usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree(3) a treatise advancing a new point of view resulting from research(4) usually a requirement for an advanced academic degree [also: theses (pl)](5) belief(6) assumption to be tested(7) written dissertation
(1) Nor can I accept the thesis that his long statement was a police concoction.(2) Although ingeniously and entertainingly argued with a wealth of detail, the thesis is not conclusively proven.(3) The writer is an environmental lawyer from Sydney who is currently based in Jakarta writing a doctoral thesis on environmental law in Indonesia.(4) And nothing proves my thesis more than comparing Spielberg's movies to the deluge that comes after him.(5) Then, under the supervision of theological scholar Paul Tillich from Harvard University, she wrote a doctoral thesis .(6) The thesis you put forward equating leftist parties has the same credibility as the joke about Hitler and Stalin.(7) Perhaps when I get around to writing my doctoral thesis it will be on The Humour of Tolstoy and Pratchett: A Comparative Study.(8) The synthesis is a previously unrecognized direction that contains elements of both the thesis and antithesis.(9) Her thesis is merely that free will and determinism are incompatible.(10) The central thesis was simple: mannerly behaviour is a barometer of civilisation.(11) Such verses often have a pause after the thesis of the second foot also.(12) Instead, his central thesis is that the religious extremism which gives rise to some forms of terrorism is born out of political repression.(13) If you are a graduate student, you may be moving toward completing your master's thesis or doctoral dissertation.(14) You feel Mamet is proving a thesis about the white American male and his channelling of sexual insecurity into racial hatred.(15) a doctoral thesis(16) For all the narrative time-shifting and interweaving threads, it is brilliantly readable and its central thesis is compelling.
