Thesis
A thesis is an intellectual propositision. In dialectics, its combination with an antithesis produces a synthesis.
An academic thesis is a treatise written upon either a student's original research or a review of literature produced by others upon a topic. Either one is typically written to fulfill requirements for a higher degree, though usually the term refers to a graduate degree. At some universities, the doctoral thesis is officially called dissertation.
See also
Famous thesis
Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences (1517).
(Otherwise known as Luther's Ninety-Five Theses)
