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- noun A
thesis thatrebuts another.
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Examples
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So anyway I'm at work on a counterthesis to refute the president's intricately geared explanation of why every American who agrees that 9/11 was a mega-catastrophe should support the administration's policy of blocking a cease-fire here in unfortunate little Lebanon.
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In a Hegelian way, the thesis and counterthesis will tend to move policy in the right direction.
Eat and grow large with food Tripp 2007
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After all, though thesis/counterthesis/synthesis ideas grow stronger … and what could be better for oneself than a stronger sense of morality?
Think Progress » Protest Turnout: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Lies 2005
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In a Hegelian way, the thesis and counterthesis will tend to move policy in the right direction.
Archive 2007-01-01 Tripp 2007
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