(rhetoric) A proposition or statement supported by arguments.

A thesis submitted for a master's degree.

(sociology) A theory that significant developments in the modern world have a positive correlation with Protestant pietism, similar to Weber's link between success and the Protestant ethic.

A research paper that a student writes in order to complete the requirements for a doctorate; a dissertation.

A master's thesis or (doctoral) dissertation.

plural of thesis statement

(authorship) A sentence in the introduction of an essay, thesis or academic paper that clarifies the main point of the text.

An academic thesis published on the Internet.

(academy) The final step in earning a doctorate: an oral examination in which the doctorand publicly defends his/her thesis to the examiners.

A historiographical approach in the history of science, maintaining that there is an intrinsic intellectual conflict between religion and science and that it inevitably leads to hostility.