postulating

Verb

postulate (third-person singular simple present postulates, present participle postulating, simple past and past participle postulated)

1. To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
   • But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause; […]1883, Benedictus de Spinoza, translated by R. H. M. Elwes, Ethics, Part 3, Prop. XXII
2. (ambitransitive, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
   • [A]lthough Douglas was postulated to it [the Abbacy of Arbroath], and signed letters and papers under this designation his nomination […] was never completed.1874, John Small, editor, The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, volume 1, page xvi
3. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.

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