Sentence examples for forced to postulate from inspiring English sources

In order to satisfy the conditions of relativity, Dirac was forced to postulate that the electron would have a particular form of wave function with four independent components, some of which describe the electron's spin.

A law of nature is represented as 'N F, G)' where F and G are universals and N indicates necessitation; Necessitation is inexplicable, it is "a primitive, which we are forced to postulate" (Armstrong 1983, 92).

Hence, Leibniz was forced to postulate the existence of an aether that kept objects moving and allowed for elastic collisions.

Thus, the proponents of the archezoan hypothesis are forced to postulate that the archezoa represent an extinct lineage of primitive eukaryotes [ 8].

Does due recognition of intentionality force us to postulate the ontological category of intentional objects?

To see that the attitude is not sufficient, imagine a situation in which physics postulates properties or objects which are like those postulated by traditional dualists; as Ney puts it imagine "it is the year 3000 AD and physicists have been forced to introduce irreducible mental entities into their theory".

The first postulate concerns our supposed natural disposition to think; the denial of this is what necessitates our being forced to think.

First, there is no need to postulate "forces" preventing intron loss at any stage of evolution.

To explain that interference occurs only when the other slit is open, it is necessary to postulate a special force on the electron which exists only when that slit is open.

Despite a slight skew toward alanine codons that end in adenine (A) or thymine (T) (55.0% GCW, W being the IUPAC ambiguity code for A or T; Additional file 2: Table S5), it is difficult to postulate that selective forces acting at the level of codon usage are responsible for the extensive homogeneity of codon positions found throughout the 612 bp Aar_ AcSp1 repeat.

One possible tweak is to postulate a new particle which carries a 'fifth force' (the other four forces being electromagnetism, the weak and strong interactions, and gravity).