The term thesis may also be used for the central claim of an essay or similar work.

Ms. Gregoire's case is believed by many legal experts to be relatively weak because a state judge has knocked out some of its central claims.

Now, instead of pursuing that interesting line of thought, you chose to make it into some central claim rather than addressing the actual issue.

His book contests the movement's central claims at a level of sociophilosophical sophistication that one rarely encounters.

The central claim of the paper depends on how many mice showed the unexpected antibody properties.

He has also sought to work out presuppositionalism's central claim that there is no neutrality in the area of science and mathematics.

It just happened that they were the central claims in the main enrichment.

Several cognitive psychologists and educators have questioned the central claims of constructivism.

Situationism can be understood as composed of three central claims:

The central claim was that Germany may not join an unstable union.