单词 | postulational |
释义 | postulationaladj. Of or relating to postulation; based on or involving deduction from a set of postulates, axiomatic. ΚΠ 1911 J. W. Young & W. W. Denton Lect. Fund. Concepts Algebra & Geom. xxi. 225 Postulational methods have been used from this point of view..with telling effect. 1932 M. H. Stone Linear Transformations in Hilbert Space i. 2 The postulational treatment was carried through only recently by J. v. Neumann. 1961 E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. v. 91 A familiar example of an abstract calculus is demonstrative Euclidean geometry developed in a postulational manner. 1990 Jrnl. Semitic Stud. 35 258 It takes more, much more, than the mere presence of one or two postulates in a grammatical model for the model in question to begin to be considered as a postulational or axiomatic system proper. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1911 |
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