postulate
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8.1
- noun
- /ˈpɑːstjʊleɪt/
- Specialized
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postulado
- You have to start with something and you have to choose certain postulates or statements which you simply take for granted, which do not require proof.
- linguistic postulates
- basic postulate
- fundamental postulates
But it seems to tear this postulate apart, doesn't it?
- But it seems to tear this postulate apart, doesn't it?
- So what they do is they state a whole bunch of postulates, you know, axioms that they think that consciousness should satisfy.
- If you could find a simple such postulate, that might be a satisfying scientific solution to this problem.
- You have to start with something and you have to choose certain postulates or statements which you simply take for granted, which do not require proof.
- For centuries they tried and failed to prove that the parallel postulate follows from the others, and the reason they failed is that it doesn't.
- Yeah, Yeah, this is just a postulate first.
- Let's write down the abstract postulates about the dual vector space.
- So he reminds us the first postulate was what?
- So this leads us, he says, to this second postulate of a harmony, right?
- So I've given you the five postulates.
Examples
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The realist perspective is frequently associated with and defined by three basic postulates about international relations.
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Let me take those as postulates and see what I can derive.
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So again, for position you can write a separate postulate, but it is not the postulate that I gave you here.
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So he reminds us the first postulate was what?
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But it seems to tear this postulate apart, doesn't it?
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Thus, the one exception we discovered to the Khazzoom-Brookes postulate might be relatively unique.
Academic text (1992) -
For centuries they tried and failed to prove that the parallel postulate follows from the others, and the reason they failed is that it doesn't.
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If these postulates are true, there is an intelligibility to created being as such.
Academic text (2008) -
Converting time into distance relies on one of the fundamental postulates of relativity: the constancy of the speed of light.
Academic text (1996) -
In mathematics, we accept the postulate as a fundamental assumption that helps determine the properties of shapes.
Synonyms
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3.5
A belief people accept as true without proof
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5.9
An idea accepted as true that supports an argument
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5.8
An idea accepted as true without proof used as a basis for thinking or action
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7.5
A basic statement accepted as true and used as a starting point for reasoning
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7.3
An idea that people accept as true without proof
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7.7
A belief people accept as true before they discuss something
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3.3
A simple idea or belief that people accept without proof and that supports an argument
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9.3
An idea people accept without proof and use to build an argument
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9.6
A statement assumed true to use in an argument
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
An assumption that all possible causes are equally likely when there is no information
How Certain
Surface Forms
Etymology
Postulate comes from the Latin postulare meaning 'to ask' or 'to demand', and a mathematical postulate is a basic idea you 'accept' without proof so you can build a whole theory from it.