postulate
/verb pos-chuh-leyt; noun pos-chuh-lit, -leyt/US // verb ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt; noun ˈpɒs tʃə lɪt, -ˌleɪt //
设想,假设,推定,推测
Related Words
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Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
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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
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- : 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
verbsuppose, figure
Forms: postulated, postulating
Examples
Even people who postulate a creative God usually acknowledge that his existence shifts the big question rather than resolving it.
While the war lasted, so he laid down, there must—apart from the postulate of Unity—be a truce to party struggles.
He receives as a postulate that which I must have demonstrated.
But I disagree with them all, because they postulate the idea that time is constantly being manufactured.
Mark Twain's early life, however imperfectly recorded, exemplifies this postulate.
All theologians and some metaphysicians postulate a fifth state of life, the divine, placing it above the rest as their source.
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