"postulate as" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when presenting a theory, opinion, or statement as a basis for further discussion or investigation. Example: "The scientist postulated as a hypothesis that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would lead to a rise in global temperatures."
In a footnote, he added, "I do not deny the possible importance of irrationality in economic life; however it seems that the best research strategy is to push the rationality postulate as far as it will go".
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.
The apparent decrease in the volume of granulite facies rocks with decreasing age of metamorphism has led some geologists to postulate, as mentioned above, that plate-tectonic processes might have changed significantly with time specifically that steady-state continental geotherms were hotter in the Precambrian than at the present time.
We view this postulate as a more transparent assumption for the synaptic drive model than the mean field assumption.
Apart from this, the polarized steel potentials seem to postulate as feasible convenient indicators of the repassivation of the steels.
So the old question, whether Euclid's parallel postulate (as a statement about space) was deducible from Euclid's other assumptions about space, was no longer interesting to geometers.
"If there was going to be some opposition, it might be postulated as coming from conservatives," Mr. Kyl said.
Even changes in population have been postulated as a cause of economic fluctuations.
Congenital oligonephropathy has been postulated as the primary mechanism.
The metabolic pathways and contributions made by different microbes were postulated, as shown in Fig. 6.
From these findings, the NecC reaction could be postulated as shown in Fig. 8.
