postulate
21postulate — pos|tu|late1 [ pastʃə,leıt ] verb transitive FORMAL to claim or imagine that something is true or that it exists ╾ pos|tu|la|tion [ ,pastʃə leıʃn ] noun count or uncount postulate pos|tu|late 2 [ pastʃə,leıt ] noun count FORMAL an idea that is an …
22postulate — [16] The noun postulate originally meant ‘demand, request’. It was an anglicization of postulātum, a noun use of the past participle of postulāre ‘demand, request’. It was used in the mid 17th century by mathematicians and logicians for a… …
23postulate — pos•tu•late v. [[t]ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt[/t]] n. [[t] lɪt, ˌleɪt[/t]] v. lat•ed, lat•ing, n. 1) to claim or assume the existence or truth of, esp. as a basis for reasoning or arguing 2) to ask, demand, or claim 3) to assume without proof, or as self… …
24postulate — postulatas statusas T sritis fizika atitikmenys: angl. postulate vok. Postulat, n rus. постулат, m pranc. postulat, m …
25postulate — [16] The noun postulate originally meant ‘demand, request’. It was an anglicization of postulātum, a noun use of the past participle of postulāre ‘demand, request’. It was used in the mid 17th century by mathematicians and logicians for a… …
26postulate of reason — index principle (axiom) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
27postulate — A proposition that is taken as self evident or assumed without proof as a basis for further analysis. SEE ALSO: hypothesis, theory. [L. postulo, pp. atus, to demand] Ampère p. SYN: Avogadro law. Avogadro p. SYN: Avogadro law. Ehrlich p. SYN: sid …
28postulate — A posit or axiom …
29postulate — Synonyms and related words: 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 …
30POSTULATE — a PHILOSOPHICAL term indicating a proposition which is to be regarded as the starting point of an ARGUMENT. Postulates are neither self evident nor demonstrably but rather the necessary assumptions made to begin a discussion …
