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postulated

/verb pos-chuh-leyt; noun pos-chuh-lit, -leyt/US // verb ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt; noun ˈpɒs tʃə lɪt, -ˌleɪt //

假设的,推定的,假定的,推测

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • 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.