thesis

Meaning

1. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
2. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
3. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
4. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
5. Senses relating to logic, rhetoric, etc.
6. Senses relating to music and prosody.
7. Senses relating to music and prosody.

Concepts

thesis

dissertation

essay

treatise

proposition

paper

theme

topic

statement

text

hypothesis

subject

article

report

contention

composition

exposure

discourse

clause

literary composition

doctoral thesis

assumption

doctrine

theorem

research

proposal

account

display

exhibition

exposition

fair

show

version

write up

capacity

class

condition

job

place

position

post

seat

site

situation

status

standing

station

stead

lemma

object matter

item

argument

contention issue

final paper

diploma thesis

disquisition

memoir

study

allegation

allegement

assertion

averment

claim

conjecture

demur

demurrer

postulation

professing

submission

doctoral dissertation

provisions

tenet

provision

monograph

heading

sign

write down

Hyphenated as

the‧sis

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈθiːsɪs/

Etymology

From Late Middle English thesis (“lowering of the voice”) and also borrowed directly from its etymon Latin thesis (“proposition, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from Ancient Greek θέσῐς (thésis, “arrangement, placement, setting; conclusion, position, thesis; lowering of the voice”), from τῐ́θημῐ (títhēmi, “to place, put, set; to put down in writing; to consider as, regard”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”)) + -σῐς (-sis, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result). The English word is a doublet of deed.
Sense 1.1 (“proposition or statement supported by arguments”) is adopted from antithesis. Sense 1.4 (“initial stage of reasoning”) was first used by the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814), and later applied to the dialectical method of his countryman, the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831).
The plural form theses is borrowed from Latin thesēs, from Ancient Greek θέσεις (théseis).

Sentences

Miller's famous " declension thesis " derives its name from Scottow's title .