In the 20th century, Noam Chomsky argued the necessity for postulating innate ideas to explain the possibility of language.
He explains this notion in terms of a natural and inevitable projection from our inductive inferences, while the necessity of hidden powers postulated by the mechanical philosophy has no analogue at all in any natural operations of the mind.
By defining the cardinal number of a given collection as the class of all equally numerous collections, we avoid the necessity of this metaphysical postulate, and thereby remove a needless element of doubt from the philosophy of arithmetic.
They accepted the necessity of maintaining defense but postulated the existence of a basic harmony of interests among states, which would minimize the incidence of wars.
Every violent revolution is bound to verify Marx, because the mass of the society, before such desperate remedies could taken, must have been reduced to the level of economic necessity which he postulated as universal.
These objectives are legitimised by a discourse postulating the necessity of urgent action to save biodiversity.
As detailed above, Cassarino postulates the necessity of 'preparedness' which comprises the two elements 'willingness' and 'readiness'readiness
In contrast to Maeda et al. (12 ), who postulated the necessity of primary bat cells to isolate DNA virus from chiroptera, our isolation of a DNA virus from an European bat in a permanent cell line (monkey kidney cells) proved the opposite.
The painting alludes to the apparatus of seeing, postulating perception as a mystical process of interpretation.
