定てい立りつ

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

thesis; positing

Philosophical term, especially in Hegelian dialectics, referring to the initial proposition or affirmation that is opposed by an antithesis. Also used more broadly for positing or establishing a proposition.

• ヘーゲルの弁べん証しょう法ほうでは、定てい立りつ・反はん定てい立りつ・総そう合ごうの三さん段だん階かいで思し考こうが進すすむ。

  In Hegelian dialectics, thought progresses through the three stages of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.

• 彼かれは議ぎ論ろんの出しゅっ発ぱつ点てんとして一ひとつの定てい立りつを提てい示じした。

  He presented a thesis as the starting point of the discussion.