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postulation

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

推测,设想,推定,假设

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Definitions

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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounassumption

Examples

  • 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.