Degree dissertation

Usage examples of thesis.

Never mind that the only thing he was trying on for size was a pretty thesis advisee named Kim Silverman.

You develop a thesis, you contradict it with an anthesis and then you resolve the contradiction with a synthesis.

But when codpieces swell and braguettes can scarcely contain their exuberant contents, the monk nails his theses to the door.

Your intelligence tells you that such a process is not abstract reasoning, and your homocentric thesis compels you to conclude that it can be only a mechanical, instinctive process.

He had now amassed about five ninety-minute tapes of material and marginalia, all on his thesis subject.

The paralogism included in the very enunciation of the parallelist thesis is explained in a memoire presented to the Geneva International Philosophical Congress in 1904.

Despite this simplistic thesis, the scenario provides the ground upon which a top-notch thriller might have been mounted.

These schizophrenic percentages resolve themselves into the thesis of the rabbis that Judaism, Trotskyist Bolshevism, and Americanism are one and the same.

She was an astrogeologist who had done her doctoral thesis on comet formation.

Although Freud has been famously charged with backing away from the cultural implications of this theory, when he proposed the Oedipus complex and thereby transferred the libidinal activity from the parents to the children, we still find the etiology thesis alive and well in contemporary thinking about trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, as evidenced in the work of Judith Herman and Bessel van der Kolk.

A PhD thesis from theUniversityofMichiganin 1968 recorded the results of a student who had spent three years feeding commonly abused drugs to rats in the laboratory and monitoring their sexual antics.

The Eleatics had put forward a claim, and Hegel called a standpoint like that a thesis.

The old theses, la Tocqueville, of the continuity of administrative bodies across different social eras are thus profoundly revised when not completely discarded.

When I was at Flamborough College, examining for the professorial theses in York University there was a man who sent in a very interesting paper on a historical subject.

Out of gratitude that he had proven my thesis, I worked him vigorously with hands and lips.