Sentence examples for a postulate from inspiring English sources

"We need to drop a postulate, perhaps the constancy of the speed of light".

This is a postulate know as "lepton universality", and in the Standard Model at least, it holds.

Kant offered a different kind of argument for immortality as a postulate of the moral life.

The women spend one year as a postulate, followed by two years as a novice, when they take a religious name and are first clothed in the habit.

Nevertheless, Einstein made the constancy of the speed of light for all observers a postulate of his new theory.

Since antiquity, Greek, Islamic, and European geometers had attempted unsuccessfully to show that the parallel postulate need not be a postulate but could instead be deduced from the other postulates of Euclidean geometry.

The first experiment with molecular beams, in 1911, confirmed a postulate of kinetic theory that molecules of a gas at a very low pressure travel in straight lines until they hit the walls of their container.

Thus, the decision to found the theory of parallels on a postulate, as in Book I of the Elements, must have been a relatively recent development in Euclid's time.

By contrast, the statement "RTC → TC" expressed the purely analytic component of the theory, its "A-postulate" (or so-called Carnap sentence).

Or differently put, the A-postulate "says only that if the world is this way, then the theoretical terms must be understood as satisfying the theory" (1966 [1996, 271]).

This "A-postulate states that if entities exist (referred to by the existential quantifiers of the Ramsey sentence) that are of a kind bound together by all the relations expressed in the theoretical postulates of the theory and that are related to observational entities by all the relations specified by the correspondence postulates of the theory, then the theory itself is true".