nonthesis

English

Etymology

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.