thesis
arsis (in music):
the upward stroke in conducting; upbeat.
arsis (in prosody):
1. the part of a metrical foot that bears the ictus or stress.
2. (less commonly) a part of a metrical foot that does not bear the ictus.
Hegelian dialectic:
1. an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis), the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis).
2. an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis).
Origin:
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin, from Greek thésis “a setting down, something set down,” equivalent to the- (stem of tithénai “to put, set down”) + -sis noun suffix; see -sis. Dictionary 2: C16: via Late Latin from Greek: a placing, from tithenai to place. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of thesis: 14th century. History and Etymology for thesis: in sense 3, Middle English, lowering of the voice, from Late Latin & Greek; Late Latin, from Greek, downbeat, more important part of a foot, literally, act of laying down; in other senses, Latin, from Greek, literally, act of laying down, from tithenai to put, lay down — more at do. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.
the upward stroke in conducting; upbeat.
arsis (in prosody):
1. the part of a metrical foot that bears the ictus or stress.
2. (less commonly) a part of a metrical foot that does not bear the ictus.
Hegelian dialectic:
1. an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis), the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis).
2. an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis).
Origin:
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin, from Greek thésis “a setting down, something set down,” equivalent to the- (stem of tithénai “to put, set down”) + -sis noun suffix; see -sis. Dictionary 2: C16: via Late Latin from Greek: a placing, from tithenai to place. —Dictionary.com. //
First Known Use of thesis: 14th century. History and Etymology for thesis: in sense 3, Middle English, lowering of the voice, from Late Latin & Greek; Late Latin, from Greek, downbeat, more important part of a foot, literally, act of laying down; in other senses, Latin, from Greek, literally, act of laying down, from tithenai to put, lay down — more at do. —Merriam-Webster.
Sources: 1, 2.