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postulate
[ verb pos-chuh-leyt; noun pos-chuh-lit, -leyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to ask, demand, or claim.
- to claim or assume the existence or truth of, especially as a basis for reasoning or arguing.
- to assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.
Synonyms: conjecture, presuppose, hypothecate
- Mathematics, Logic. to assume as a postulate.
noun
- something taken as self-evident or assumed without proof as a basis for reasoning.
Synonyms: conjecture, assumption, axiom, theory, hypothesis
- Mathematics, Logic. a proposition that requires no proof, being self-evident, or that is for a specific purpose assumed true, and that is used in the proof of other propositions; axiom.
- a fundamental principle.
- a necessary condition; prerequisite.
postulate
verb
- to assume to be true or existent; take for granted
- to ask, demand, or claim
- to nominate (a person) to a post or office subject to approval by a higher authority
noun
- something taken as self-evident or assumed as the basis of an argument
- a necessary condition or prerequisite
- a fundamental principle
- logic maths an unproved and indemonstrable statement that should be taken for granted: used as an initial premise or underlying hypothesis in a process of reasoning
postulate
/ pŏs′chə-lĭt /
- See axiom
postulate
- A statement accepted as true for the purposes of argument or scientific investigation; also, a basic principle. ( See axiom .)
Derived Forms
- ˌpostuˈlation, noun
Other Words From
- postu·lation noun
- postu·lation·al adjective
- re·postu·late verb (used with object) repostulated repostulating
- re·postu·late noun
- repos·tu·lation noun
- un·postu·lated adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of postulate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of postulate1
Example Sentences
Even people who postulate a creative God usually acknowledge that his existence shifts the big question rather than resolving it.
While the war lasted, so he laid down, there must—apart from the postulate of Unity—be a truce to party struggles.
He receives as a postulate that which I must have demonstrated.
But I disagree with them all, because they postulate the idea that time is constantly being manufactured.
Mark Twain's early life, however imperfectly recorded, exemplifies this postulate.
All theologians and some metaphysicians postulate a fifth state of life, the divine, placing it above the rest as their source.
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