Unlike laws, theories often postulate unobservable objects as part of their explanatory mechanism. From LearnThat.org. [John L. Casti (1943 - ) American mathematician, author.]
I think your postulate is often true for me, but that show might be my exception. From Wordnik.com. [mrissa: TV main characters: why do they suck so?] Reference
One of the ways you postulate is to examine available evidence and available processes. From Wordnik.com. [Another Look] Reference
If what you postulate is true, then both the lawyer and DeLay are too incompetent to enter into a courtroom to begin with. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » BREAKING: DeLay’s Lawyer Lies About MoveOn] Reference
The global warming postulate is based almost entirely on models, and today's models are deliberately biased to support global warming. From Wordnik.com. [Trust the Experts: A Reasonable, Defeasible Presumption, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Yet he probably held that his postulate was a close approximation to the facts. From Wordnik.com. [The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill] Reference
A postulate is a basic assumption that is a premise in the foundations of geometry. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
But if it is true and is provable without the parallels postulate, that is a matter of metaphysical necessity. From Wordnik.com. [Rigid Designators] Reference
And besides, it’s not really a world-destroying environmental danger of the kind we writers postulate, is it?. From Wordnik.com. [June « 2007 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website] Reference
Maybe it's my browser, but the two book covers and the "postulate" example are covering up the interview text. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: SBBT 2008: Varian Johnson, Mild Mannered Engineer By Day...] Reference
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "postulate", but in most senses of the word, it is, indeed, a harm to postulate anything of the sort. From Wordnik.com. [Another Look] Reference
So, if their arguments they term them a "postulate" are correct, we should expect plants to expand what they term the "leaf area index.". From Wordnik.com. [Ars Technica] Reference
When, in a different connection, it suits our author's purpose to throw doubt on the very postulate which is here admitted, he holds the following language. From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'] Reference
But the so-called postulate seems not to be true. From Wordnik.com. [Determinates vs. Determinables] Reference
'postulate' it for the sake of the working value of the postulate to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
6.1223 Now it becomes clear why people have often felt as if it were for us to 'postulate' the 'truths of logic'. From Wordnik.com. [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus] Reference
"postulate" that they have majority rights since "they are and have been for many centuries in possession of the land", uninterrupted since "early historical times". From Wordnik.com. [Dandelion Salad] Reference
It is not enough to postulate the inherent capacity of man. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
I hope it will be so for it will postulate a foundation in fact. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911] Reference
But we recall at this point that Science says she must still postulate. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
As the old postulate respecting the etymology of this important word, from. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Teleology in Kant's sense is and will always be a necessary postulate of biology. From Wordnik.com. [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference
Euclid's postulates are of this kind, especially that known as the parallel-postulate. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
It is true that most of them have continued to postulate the reality of material bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
They shall be given a fair hearing, and may postulate their views without prejudice in any way. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
We never postulate a causal relation between day and night -- the most notable case of invariable sequence. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
Anthropologists now postulate that a horse-riding Korean tribe migrated to Japan at the dawn of the first millennium. From Wordnik.com. [The Ties That Bind] Reference
Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to postulate many myths in an effort to make sense of their worl. From Wordnik.com. [Why God Did Not Create the Universe] Reference
Conservative planners like Janet Briaud in Bryan, Texas, postulate roughly 8 percent for balanced stock-and-bond portfolios. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Tease] Reference
Therefore, from the electro-magnetic theory of light, we are again compelled to postulate atoms of some kind for the Aether. From Wordnik.com. [Aether and Gravitation] Reference
Given these problems, one should not postulate that risk is reduced by time, at least not based on the premise of these two theories. From Wordnik.com. [Redefining Investor Risk] Reference
Obama's critics are free to speculate on his motives for voting against the bills, and postulate a lack of concern for babies 'welfare. From Wordnik.com. [Obama and 'Infanticide'] Reference
It isn't hyperbole to postulate that the Phillies simply can't get back to the playoffs without a more reliable performance from the closer's spot. From Wordnik.com. [The Phillies' closer problem] Reference
Among these Asiatics Mr. Buckle would have some difficulty in maintaining his favorite postulate, that tolerance is the result of progressive intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
Add the third postulate, which is political but almost certainly undeniable: 3. Conservatives stereotype as intolerant, while liberals stereotype as tolerant. From Wordnik.com. ["I think it's Althouse's popularity among conservatives that really gets a lot of liberals."] Reference
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