On the other hand, political science literature postulates that parties develop oligarchical leadership structures.
Kuhn's concept of scientific revolutions (or paradigm shifts) postulates that science does not only evolve through the gradual accumulation of evidence, as was previously thought, but also through dramatic revisions of previous data that radically change the overall opinion of a given scientific community on a subject [ 254].
The lead witness at the hearings introducing the original bill, Luther Sunderland, described creation science as postulating "that everything was created by some intelligence or power external to the universe". Id. at E-9 - E-10.
To that part of the educated classes, every success of science reinforced their certainty in a clockwork universe, justifying not just disagreement with, but dismissal of, any postulates that were not consistent with the prevailing metaphysics.
Euclid saw farther, for coherent geometries (known as non-Euclidean geometries) can be produced by replacing the fifth postulate with other postulates that contradict Euclid's choice.
In their study, published today in the Springer journal The Science of Nature, the team of scientists therefore postulates that the evolution of penguins started much earlier than previously thought, probably already during the age of dinosaurs.
Just as Nietzsche postulates that the religious will to truth in Christianity results in the destruction of Christianity by science (see Nietzsche 1974 [1882], 280 83), Foucault postulates that genealogical research will result in the disintegration of the epistemic subject, as the continuity of the subject is broken up by the gaps and accidents that historical research uncovers.
He postulates that "Americans overwhelmingly favor small, reasonable ideas over big, grandiose schemes".
This is an erroneous assumption, because this theory postulates that Smurfs reproduce sexually.
This approach postulates that spacetime at the Planck scale is a discrete causal set, or causet.
