postulate 的 2 个定义
pos·tu·lat·ed, pos·tu·lat·ing.
- 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.
- Mathematics, Logic. to assume as a postulate.
- something taken as self-evident or assumed without proof as a basis for reasoning.
- 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 近义词
suppose, figure
更多postulate例句
- 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.