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postulating

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

推测,设想,假设,设定

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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

  • And with those exceptions we have brought them into the framework of our picture of the Universe by postulating "dense matter."

  • This, of course, is equivalent to postulating the cerebral cortex as the exclusive seat of higher intellection.

  • From the above instances, which could be multiplied, we have no hesitation in postulating a Hebrew original of i.-iii.

  • Nothing would be gained, however, by postulating merely a mystery—an unknowable.

  • "If you are postulating a linear progression from the old social sciences—forget it," Neel said.