Synonyms:
thesis
Meaning: an unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument
Usage examples
In the middle of the eighteenth century Buffon, in France, produced a thesis attempting to state simple geological truths.
Communism--the first expression of the social nature--is the first term of social development,--the THESIS; property, the reverse of communism, is the second term,--the ANTITHESIS.