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• Some postulate that after a nuclear war, humanity would fall into a state of barbarianism.From the entry barbarianism
• On what ground can we postulate them in order to define truth?2017 October 3, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 220. From the entry nowhen
• In that case we would be better off maximizing, or perhaps "mediumizing", the numbers of postulated changes.2013, Numerical Taxonomy, page 327. From the entry mediumize
• Positivism postulates a "real" and apprehendable reality, driven by immutable natural laws and mechanisms.2012, Kaye Sung Chon, Consumer Behavior in Travel and Tourism, page 112. From the entry apprehendable
• Counteradaptation postulates that the initial positive rewarding feelings are followed by the opposing development of tolerance.2010, Marie A. Chisholm-Burns, Terry L. Schwinghammer, Barbara G. Wells, Pharmacotherapy Principles and Practice, page 610. From the entry counteradaptation
• He postulated a category of things that don't make you laugh which he called the antijoke.1999, Eric Idle, The Road to Mars, Knopf Doubleday, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry antijoke
• He postulates a “circular causality” as a “chiasm” between mental states and physico-mental conditions.1997: Georg Meggle [ed.], ἀναλύωμεν — Analyōmen 2: Proceedings of the 2ⁿᵈ Conference “Perspectives in Analytical Philosophy”, page 115…. From the entry physico-mental
• The postulated isomorphism between words and things constitutes the characterizing feature of all philosophically based universal languages.1984, Brigitte Asbach-Schnitker, “Introduction”, in Mercury or The Secret and Swift Messenger, →ISBN. From the entry isomorphism
• One must postulate that every fabulate is based on a memorate.1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232. From the entry memorate
• On the evidence stated, it would seem imparsimonious to postulate such enduring continuants as psychoids.1966, Paul E[verett] Meehl, “The Compleat^([sic]) Autocerebroscopist: A Thought-Experiment on Professor Feigl’s Mind-Body Identity…. From the entry imparsimonious
• In the northern Taconic Range of centralwestern Vermont an allochthone has been postulated.1961, Philip C. Hewitt, “New Hypothesis for Solution of the Taconic Problem”, in Geological Society of America: Abstracts for 1961, →ISBN…. From the entry allochthone
• Today it is they that proclaim the slogan of "federation"—which is opposed to the Baath's postulates.1959, Swiss Review of World Affairs, page 23. From the entry Baath
• Freudenberg also postulates a second process whereby catechins in the presence of dehydrases undergo condensation by dehydrogenation.1959, N. Campbell [contrib.] and Ernest Harry Rodd [ed.], Chemistry of Carbon Compounds, volume 4B, chapter 8, page 942. From the entry dehydrase
• Lesser lesions on fine nerve fibrils and gemmules, or nerve cells may reasonably be postulated.1927, William N[ewbold] Bispham, “Professional Schools in Military and Nonmilitary Institutions”, in Frank W. Weed, editor, The Medical…. From the entry gemmule
• The fifth postulate alone requires thirty-five words.2014, Matt Parker, “Shapes: Now in 3D”, in Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician’s Journey through Narcissistic…. From the entry citation needed
• But judgment presumes relative size constancy for postulated objects, and attributes radical size differences to distance, directly, without inference.2013, Laura E. Wood, The Structure of Thinking: A Process-Oriented Account of Mind, UK: Imprint Academic Publications, page 129. From the entry leprechaunesque
• This, of course, is true of Marxism where what is postulated is considered educive of the necessary next phase after capitalism.2012, G. H. Bantock, Studies in the History of Educational Theory, volume 2, page 11. From the entry educive
• He postulates that in the syzygy the archetypal union of the parents is expressed, the mother corresponding to the anima.2006, Renos K. Papadopoulos, The Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice and Applications, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry syzygy
• "One might postulate at this point that persons suffer from theophobia, contempt for one thought to usurp their prerogatives.2005, Morris A. Inch, Elder Brother: A Christian Alternative to Anti-Semitism, page 81. From the entry theophobia
• But this idea, which is a general postulate in all demonstrations, has been taken for granted by every algebrician and geometer.1999, Joseph-Marie Montmasson, Invention and the Unconscious, page 56. From the entry geometer
• Moreover, we postulate, these relations become crucial in social systems of high information flow and content, that is infosocieties.1995, Paris Arnopoulos, Sociopolitics: political development in postmodern societies. From the entry infosociety
• On the other hand, they can be seen as postulating the existence of a rich collection of Tweedledums.1989, Jon Barwise, The Situation in Logic, page 189. From the entry Tweedle-dum
• When Lucasians postulate that prices are ‘flexible’ they seem to mean that we can observe only Walrasian market-clearing prices.1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page 48. From the entry invisible hand
• Before we examine the particulars of the parallel postulates of Hyperbolic and Elliptical geometries, we must see their logic.1962, Mary Irene Solon, The Parallel Postulates of Non-Euclidean Geometry: The Pentagon: A Mathematics Magazine for Students, Volumes…. From the entry parallel postulate
• While Jung mentions the uroboros archetype several times, his concept of the uroboros is more general than that postulated in this work.2015, James P. Driscoll, The Unfolding God of Jung and Milton, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 210. From the entry uroboros
• He postulated that light falling on the plant in the scotophil phase would inhibit flowering, and in the photophil phase, enhance flower production.2013, Beatrice M. Sweeney, Rhythmic Phenomena in Plants, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry photophil
• By way of analogy, it would in theory also be possible to postulate a concept of a science whose universality and mathematicality are relative only.2007, Kevin Corrigan, John Douglas Turner, Platonisms: Ancient, Modern, and Postmodern, Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry mathematicality
• This eutaxiological definition of miracles also has the advantage of being consistent with all the findings and postulates of modern science . . .2001, Michael Anthony Corey, The God Hypothesis: Discovering Divine Design in Our Goldilocks Universe. From the entry eutaxiological
• In fact, there can be no proof of the parallel postulate that relies only on the other axioms and postulates of Euclid.1998, David A. Singer, Geometry: Plane and Fancy, Springer, page 16. From the entry parallel postulate
• The complemented palindromic structure has been postulated to allow the two halves of the complemented palindrome (separated or not) to fold and form complementary pairs.1997, Dan Gusfield, Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences, page 140. From the entry complemented
• The Nostratic hypothesis was postulated for the first time by the Danish Indo-Europeanist, Holger Pedersen, at the beginning of the 20th century.1992, Václav Blazek, Who are you, homo sapiens sapiens?, page 139. From the entry Indo-Europeanist
• Is Kant also postulating transphenomenal inclinations?1980, Walter Arnold Kaufmann, Discovering the Mind: Goethe, Kant, and Hegel, page 120. From the entry transphenomenal
• In terms of the mechanics postulated above, this late deformation cycle started with upbowing of the anticlinal axis to produce the cross joints.1960, Edward Wisser, Relation of Ore Deposition to Doming in the North American Cordillera, page 45. From the entry upbow
• In order to address the systematic, processual character of interpersonal interactions — the larger mosaic of micro-level patterns — we must postulate subapparent but encompassing structures of social activity.2017, Paul B. Stretesky, Michael J. Lynch, Radical and Marxist Theories of Crime. From the entry encompass
• As Lifton postulated it, this is primarily the use of techniques to dominate the person's contact with the outside world but also their communication with themselves.2013, Dennis Tourish, The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership: A Critical Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN, page 149. From the entry milieu control
• Gordon MacDonald postulates that the way God created Eve, "leads me to think that the original Adam, a kind of man-woman, is now two: a man and a woman."2011, R. James Tasker, Restoring Cultural Foundations, page 178. From the entry man-woman
• Agnew's triadic postulate is not in itself very controversial, but there have been sharp disagreements over which ingredient(s) of place should be given pride of place.2001, Lawrence Buell, Writing for an Endangered World, page 60. From the entry pride of place
• The attempt to remake nature in terms of grace and to restructure the world according to other-worldly postulates resulted in the eventual loss of transcendent otherhood.1997, Adam B. Seligman, The Problem of Trust, Princeton University Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry otherhood
• This chapter is devoted to the theory of affine geometries: those incidence geometries which satisfy the Euclidean parallel postulate in Playfair's form (Ch. 2, Sec. 2).1989, Walter Prenowitz, Meyer Jordan, Basic Concepts of Geometry, Ardsley House, page 167. From the entry affine geometry
• Professor rich brown has recently promulgated a theory of the Conservation of Egoboo, which postulates that the amount of egoboo resulting from any given piece of fanac is constant.1986 November, Walt Willis, “The Harp That Once or Twice”, in Science-Fiction Five-Yearly, number 8, page 6. From the entry annish

Meaning of postulate

1. noun Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.
2. noun A fundamental element; a basic principle.
3. noun An axiom.

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How do you use postulate in a sentence?

Postulate is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Some postulate that after a nuclear war, humanity would fall into a state of barbarianism.”

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“Is Kant also postulating transphenomenal inclinations?”

What does postulate mean?

Postulate means something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.