postulation 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.
postulation 近义词
assumption
更多postulation例句
- Then he makes a grandiose postulation about not knowing how one “compares art.”
- Postulation and the verifying of postulates is thus a process of reciprocal discrimination and selection.
- The postulation by him of molecular force at this point, is virtually an abandonment of the whole controversy.
- Both postulation and verification, then, are applicable to the problems of religion as of science.
- But such esoteric combinations are not at all necessary for the postulation of wildly variant life forms.
- But Science has been reluctant to recognise that it is now entitled to dispense with the postulation of Matter.