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单词 postulational
释义 postulational, a.|pɒstjʊˈleɪʃənəl|
[f. postulation + -al.]
Of or pertaining to postulation; based on or involving deduction from a set of postulates.
1926L. Bloomfield in Language II. 153 Nevertheless, the postulational method can further the study of language, because it forces us to state explicitly whatever we assume.1932M. H. Stone Linear Transformations in Hilbert Space i. 2 The postulational treatment was carried through only recently by J. v. Neumann.1933L. S. Stebbing Mod. Introd. Logic (ed. 2) 506 A set of primitive propositions may be called ‘a set of postulates’, and the system thus constructed may be called ‘a postulational system’.1956E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics iii. 75 The three laws of motion, together with the definitions, are given [by Newton] as a postulational system.1961E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. v. 91 A familiar example of an abstract calculus is demonstrative Euclidean geometry developed in a postulational manner.
Hence postuˈlationally adv.
1936Mind XLV. 174 In general, if x is defined postulationally, any proposition containing x will implicate the postulational definition of x.1966H. V. Guenther Tibetan Buddhism vi. 89 The distinction between a ‘co-emergent belief in things’ and a ‘postulationally defined belief in things’..is concisely stated.
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