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adjectivenonthesis (not comparable)
- not comparableNot being or relating to a thesis.
nounnonthesis (plural nontheses)
plural nontheses
- Something that is posited in order to be disproved.
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 981 more example
...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
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