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A hundred pages to say one sentence, then defend it like it insulted your family.
means A long, formally argued piece of writing — usually to earn a degree — that stakes out a claim and marshals evidence to prove it.
from From Greek 'thesis,' meaning 'a placing' or 'a proposition set down,' rooted in 'tithenai,' 'to put or place.' Originally it was a position you planted in an argument — something laid down to be tested — long before it became the brick of paper you have to haul across a stage.
- origin
- Greek for placing or setting down
- length illusion
- longer ones often hide the weaker argument
- the real test
- explaining it sober in two sentences
- advisor rule
- they remember the gaps, not the effort