Sentence examples for the postulate from inspiring English sources
verb
To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
Sometimes those results confirm the postulate; sometimes they confound it.
He is irritated by "the postulate of French political philosophy that citizens must all subscribe to the same values in the public sphere".
However, the daughter's accord with the postulate, which was during childhood like a faith in the Gnostic cult of numbers of Pythagoras, later became more a variety of Realpolitik.
The distinguishing feature of superstring theory is the postulate that elementary particles are not mere points in space but have linear extension.
If a test failed, the postulate could be revised, and if the test then succeeded, the findings would be added to the body of psychological science.
During the period 1600 1800 mathematicians continued these efforts by trying to show that the postulate was equivalent to some result that was considered self-evident.
This is the postulate of legal equality.
The postulate is confirmed by simulation results.
The postulate of immortality is typically found alongside Kant's discussions of the postulate of God.
This is the postulate of fair equality of social opportunity.
This is the postulate — requiring equal opportunity — of equal political power sharing.
