nonthesis

adj, noun — 2 senses

nonthesis

adj

Etymology From non- + thesis.

1

Not being or relating to a thesis.

nonthesis

noun

Etymology From non- + thesis.

1

Something that is posited in order to be disproved.

  • ...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.2021, Gabriel Tupinambá, The Desire of Psychoanalysis: Exercises in Lacanian Thinking:
  • we can do both: prove theses and extract falsifying models for non-theses on the basis of unsuccessful derivations.2010, Andrzej Indrzejczak, Natural Deduction, Hybrid Systems and Modal Logics, Page 98:

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