nonthesis
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nonthesis (not comparable)
- Not being or relating to a thesis.
Noun
[edit]nonthesis (plural nontheses)
- Something that is posited in order to be disproved.
- 2021, Gabriel Tupinambá, The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking:
- ...or theses, and non-derivable propositions, non-theses, while also assigning an operator to relate the two, since the negation of a non-thesis should give us a derivable thesis.
- 2010, Andrzej Indrzejczak, Natural Deduction, Hybrid Systems and Modal Logics, Page 98:
- we can do both: prove theses and extract falsifying models for non-theses on the basis of unsuccessful derivations.