nonthesis

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English

Etymology

From non- +‎ thesis.

Adjective

nonthesis (not comparable)

  1. Not being or relating to a thesis.

Noun

nonthesis (plural nontheses)

  1. 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.

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