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Postulate Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Postulate?
[n] (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
[v] take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature" [v] maintain or assert; "He contended that Communism had no future" [v] require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulates a patient's consent" Synonyms | Synonyms for Postulate: ask | call for | contend | demand | involve | necessitate | need | posit | posit | require | take Related Terms | Find terms related to Postulate: a priori principle | a priori truth | absolute fact | accepted fact | actual fact | admitted fact | advance | affirm | affirmation | apriorism | assert | assertion | assume | assumed position | assumption | avant-propos | aver | axiom | bald fact | bare fact | basis | breakthrough | bring before | bring forward | bring up | broach | brocard | brutal fact | call | categorical proposition | center | challenge | circumstance | claim | cold fact | commend to attention | conceded fact | conjecture | core | data | datum | demonstrable fact | dictate | dictum | elixir | empirical fact | essence | essential | established fact | exact | exordium | fact | fact of experience | first principles | flower | focus | foreword | formula | foundation | front matter | frontispiece | fundamental | gist | given fact | golden rule | gravamen | ground | guesswork | hard fact | heart | hypostasis | hypothesis | hypothesis ad hoc | indisputable fact | inescapable fact | inference | inner essence | innovation | introduce | introduction | kernel | launch | law | lay before | lay down | leap | lemma | major premise | make a motion | marrow | matter of fact | meat | minor premise | moot | move | naked fact | not guesswork | not opinion | nub | nucleus | nuts and bolts | offer a resolution | open up | overture | philosopheme | philosophical proposition | pith | plain | pose | posit | position | positive fact | postulation | postulatum | preamble | predicate | preface | prefer | prefix | prefixture | preliminary | prelude | premise | presume | presumption | presupposal | presupposition | principium | principle | proem | prolegomena | prolegomenon | prolepsis | prologue | propose | proposition | propositional function | propound | protasis | provable fact | put forth | put forward | put it to | quid | quiddity | quintessence | recommend | require | requisition | rule | salient fact | sap | self-evident fact | self-evident truth | set before | set forth | set of postulates | settled principle | significant fact | simple fact | sober fact | solicit | soul | spirit | start | statement | stubborn fact | stuff | submit | substance | suggest | sumption | supposal | supposing | supposition | surmise | the case | the nitty-gritty | theorem | thesis | truism | truth | truth table | truth-function | truth-value | undeniable fact | universal truth | verse | voluntary | well-known fact | working hypothesis See Also | assert | assumption | claim | cost | cry for | cry out for | draw | govern | imply | insist | premise | premiss | presuppose | proposition Postulate In Webster's Dictionary \Pos"tu*late\, n. [L. postulatum a demand, request,
prop. p. p. of postulare to demand, prob. a dim. of poscere
to demand, prob. for porcscere; akin to G. forschen to
search, investigate, Skr. prach to ask, and L. precari to
pray: cf. F. postulat. See {Pray}.]
1. Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or
supposition assumed without proof, or one which is
considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be
demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence.
2. (Geom.) The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in
distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a
self-evident theorem.
The distinction between a postulate and an axiom
lies in this, -- that the latter is admitted to be
self-evident, while the former may be agreed upon
between two reasoners, and admitted by both, but not
as proposition which it would be impossible to deny.
--Eng. Cyc.
\Pos"tu*late\, a. Postulated. [Obs.] --Hudibras. \Pos"tu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Postulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Postulating}.] 1. To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate conclusions. 2. To take without express consent; to assume. The Byzantine emperors appear to have . . . postulated a sort of paramount supremacy over this nation. --W. Tooke. 3. To invite earnestly; to solicit. [Obs.] --Bp. Burnet. |
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