postulation / verb ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt; noun ˈpɒs tʃə lɪt, -ˌleɪt /

推测设想推定假设

postulation2 个定义

v. 有主动词 verb

pos·tu·lat·ed, pos·tu·lat·ing.

  1. to ask, demand, or claim.
  2. to claim or assume the existence or truth of, especially as a basis for reasoning or arguing.
  3. to assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.
  4. Mathematics, Logic. to assume as a postulate.
n. 名词 noun
  1. something taken as self-evident or assumed without proof as a basis for reasoning.
  2. 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.
  3. a fundamental principle.
  4. a necessary condition; prerequisite.

postulation 近义词

n. 名词 noun

assumption

更多postulation例句

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