| 单词 | postulate |
| 释义 | postulate (once / 3420 pages) vn Assume something or present it as a fact and you postulate it. Physicists postulate the existence of parallel universes, which is a little mind-blowing. Anyone who has suffered through geometry class is familiar with some of the greatest hits, like Euclid's postulate and the point-line-plane postulate. Those are propositions that have to be assumed for other mathematical statements to follow logically. As a verb (pronounced "POST-you-late") it describes the act of presenting an idea, theory, belief, or concept. WORD FAMILYpostulate: postulated, postulates, postulating, postulation, postulator+/postulation: postulational, postulations/postulator: postulators USAGE EXAMPLESKant’s key postulate was “the creation of an international community based on commerce and free trade.” Time(Dec 12, 2016) Although scientists have yet to calculate the final depth, they postulate that it is a number that has not been seen in almost a century. Salon(Nov 05, 2016) There was and has been no solutions postulated for the consequences of those actions. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) 1v maintain or assert Syn|Hyper contend claim assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing 2v require as useful, just, or proper This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent Syn|Ant|Hypo ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, require, take claim, exact, take take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs eliminate, obviate, rid of do away with claim, exact, take take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs governrequire to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood drawrequire a specified depth for floating costrequire to lose, suffer, or sacrifice cry for, cry out forneed badly or desperately compelnecessitate or exact 3v take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom Syn|Hypo|Hyper posit assert, insist assert to be true presuppose, suppose take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand 4n (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning Syn|Hypo|Hyper posit Bayes' postulate (statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance) assumption, premise, premissa statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn major premise, major premissthe premise of a syllogism that contains the major term (which is the predicate of the conclusion) minor premise, minor premiss, subsumptionthe premise of a syllogism that contains the minor term (which is the subject of the conclusion) thesisan unproved statement put forward as a premise in an argument condition, precondition, stipulationan assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else scenarioa postulated sequence of possible events proposition (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false |
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