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Thesis

A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.

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Assumption 76% connected

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

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Premise 76% connected

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

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Premiss 76% connected

Premise.

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Treatise 76% connected

A written composition on a particular subject, in which its principles are discussed or explained; a tract.

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Dissertation 92% connected

A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.

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Argument noun · 86% connection

a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"

Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Philosophy, Argument and reasoning, Essay and argument structure, Logic and argument.
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Argumentation noun · 86% connection

a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"

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Cogency noun · 86% connection

the quality of being valid and rigorous

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Conclusion noun · 86% connection

the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllo…

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Debate noun · 86% connection

a discussion in which reasons are advanced for and against some proposition or proposal; "the argument over foreign aid goes on and on"

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Deduction noun · 86% connection

reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

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Deductive reasoning noun · 86% connection

reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

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Entailment noun · 86% connection

something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

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Illation noun · 86% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Implication noun · 86% connection

something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications"

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Inference noun · 86% connection

the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusi…

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Line noun · 86% connection

a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning; "I can't follow your l…

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Logic noun · 86% connection

reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"

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Logical adjective · 86% connection

capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning; "a logical mind"

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Proposition noun · 86% connection

(logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false

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Ratiocination noun · 86% connection

the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllo…

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Rigor noun · 86% connection

the quality of being valid and rigorous

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Rigour noun · 86% connection

the quality of being valid and rigorous

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Affirmative noun · 78% connection

That which affirms as opposed to that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the p…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Aspect noun · 78% connection

Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Axiom adjective · 78% connection

A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can m…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Consequence noun · 78% connection

A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; infer…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Contend verb · 78% connection

To put forward a reasoned claim.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Contention noun · 78% connection

A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Corollary noun · 78% connection

Something which follows from the demonstration of a proposition; an additional inference or deduction from a demonstrated proposition;…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Defend verb · 78% connection

To repel danger or harm from; to protect; to secure against; attack; to maintain against force or argument; to uphold; to guard; as, t…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Disputation verb · 78% connection

The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal cont…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Dispute verb · 78% connection

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to al…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Enounce verb · 78% connection

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Enthymeme noun · 78% connection

An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedent and consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted; a…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: position, proposition, advances, offers, maintain.
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Existential operator noun · 78% connection

a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true

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Existential quantifier noun · 78% connection

a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true

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Hold verb · 78% connection

To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.

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