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Postulate   /pˈɑstʃəlˌeɪt/  /pˈɑstʃələt/   Listen
Postulate

verb
(past & past part. postulated; pres. part. postulating)
1.
Maintain or assert.  Synonym: contend.
2.
Take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom.  Synonym: posit.
3.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take.  "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 postulate a patient's consent"
noun
1.
(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning.  Synonym: posit.



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"Postulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... their essential invisibility, and consequent upon this their ubiquity under the dominant categories of time and place, precludes any possibility of their incarnation, we are compelled to postulate that their complex vision's attribute of sensation, in the absence of any bodily senses, finds its contact with "the objective mystery" and with the objective "universe" in some definite and permanent "intermediary" which serves in their case the same primal necessity as is served in ...
— The Complex Vision • John Cowper Powys
 
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... the vocabulary of thought are "Christian" and "Science." The former is the highest style of man; the latter reveals and interprets God and man; it aggregates, amplifies, unfolds, and expresses the ALL-God. The life of Christ is the predicate and postulate of all that I teach, and there is but one standard statement, one rule, and one Principle ...
— No and Yes • Mary Baker Eddy
 
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... through the interpenetration of spirit, what is a possible method of action? To explain what I mean I must use a diagrammatic figure, but I admit this must be not only inadequate but misleading, for instead of the two dimensions of a diagram, we must postulate three, with time added as a vital element, and, I dare say, a "fourth dimension" as well. Confessing inadequacy in the symbol, let us conceive of a space divided into four strata. The lowest of these is the ...
— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram
 
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... phrase, and yet, and here's the enduring wonder—I am still but man, though man blessed with so much profundity, fecundity, and redundity of thought and expression, and therefore a facile scribe or speaker, able to create, relate, formulate or postulate any truth, axiomatic, sophistry subtle, or, in ...
— The Geste of Duke Jocelyn • Jeffery Farnol
 
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... seal of nobility on the peoples who have the virtue to face it. All other tests are but substitutes which never make a man face himself in the alternative of life or death. A doctrine which has its starting-point at the prejudicial postulate of peace ...
— Readings on Fascism and National Socialism • Various
 
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