Crossword-Solution: THESIS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Thesis | n. | A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument. |
| Thesis | n. | Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree. |
| Thesis | n. | An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis. |
| Thesis | n. | The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis. |
| Thesis | n. | The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word. |
| Thesis | n. | The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| THESIS | anagram | HEISTS, SHIEST, THEISS |
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Sentences with THESIS (5)
Occurs in stories in the following form: "He started on his thesis; 2 pi years later..." :two-to-the-N: quant.
The method of inquiry has passed into a method of teaching in which by the help of interlocutors the same thesis is looked at from various points of view.
Daddy-Long-Legs Smith, SIR: Having completed the study of argumentation and the science of dividing a thesis into heads, I have decided to adopt the following form for letter-writing.
Excepting the powerful books by Walter Prescott Webb, not since Frederick Jackson Turner, in 1893, presented his famous thesis on "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" has such a revealing evaluation of frontier movements appeared As a matter of fact, Henry Nash Smith leaves Turner's ideas on the dependence of democracy upon farmers without more than one leg to stand upon.
Now we are quite even about the thesis, aren't we? Oh, did you mean it? Well, you _are_ a clever girl.
Quotes with THESIS (3)
Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means that it is directed, quasi-teleologically, towards a *truth in itself* in which the reason underlying all appearances is to be found. The tacit thesis of perception is that at every instant experience can be co-ordinated with that of the previous instant and that of the following, and my perspective with that of other consciousnesse…
In Leibniz we can already find the striking observation that *cogitatur ergo est* is no less evident than *cogito ergo sum*. Naturally, *est* here does not mean existence or reality but being of whatever kind and form, including even ideal being, fictive being, conscious-being [*Bewusst-Sein*], etc. However, we must go even beyond this thesis of Leibniz. The correlate of the act of *cogitatio* is not, as Leibniz said, being simply, but only that type of being we call "objecti…
Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was created in God's image - and has intestines! - or God lacks intestines and man is not like him. The ancient Gnostics felt as I did at the age of five. In the second century, the Great Gnostic master Valentinus resolved the damnable dil…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 124 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).