单词	postulate
释义	postulate1 verbpostulate2 noun postulatepos‧tu‧late1 /ˈpɒstjəleɪt $ ˈpɑːstʃə-/ verb [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINpostulate1 Origin: 1500-1600 Latin past participle of postulare, from poscere ‘to ask’ Verb Table VERB TABLE postulate Simple Form Present I, you, we, they postulate he, she, it postulates Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they postulated Present perfect I, you, we, they have postulated he, she, it has postulated Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had postulated Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will postulate Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have postulated Continuous Form Present I am postulating he, she, it is postulating you, we, they are postulating Past I, he, she, it was postulating you, we, they were postulating Present perfect I, you, we, they have been postulating he, she, it has been postulating Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been postulating Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be postulating Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been postulating Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Darwin postulated the modern theory of evolution. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Again, inhibition of suppressor cell activity was postulated to be responsible. Enlightenment philosophers postulated a social contract to which rational, independent men could be expected to agree. I agree with Mr. Park that in the case postulated the will would have been validly executed. It has been further postulated that pouchitis represents a recurrence of ulcerative colitis in reservoirs with colonic metaplasia. The relationship he postulates is not one-way traffic; it is dialectical. This idolatrous crowd postulates an ideal worthy of itself and appropriate to its nature, that is perfectly understandable. To begin with, it postulates that the hero of your story is in danger. formal to suggest that something might have happened or be true → hypothesizepostulate that It has been postulated that the condition is inherited.—postulation /ˌpɒstjəˈleɪʃən $ ˌpɑːstʃə-/ noun [countable, uncountable] postulate1 verbpostulate2 noun postulatepos‧tu‧late2 /ˈpɒstjələt $ ˈpɑːstʃə-/ noun [countable] Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a proof of Kepler's mathematical postulate EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Because even an idiotic postulate needs to be disproved by scientific means. But a postulate in a Euclidean system must be accepted in order to maintain the integrity of the whole. For instance, theorists of social representation have developed Durkheim's postulate that collective representations should have theoretical primacy over individual representations. Here Moscovici is offering a universal postulate about social psychological processes. It is, at best, a postulate. It would be reasonable to accept any postulate that would make it more probable. Proving Koch's postulates would of course be unethical and controversy is fuelled by this lack of scientific certainty. So many false starts, blind alleys, postulates which decayed before the end of the argument. word sets WORD SETS► Philosophy causation, nouncosmogony, noundeconstruction, noundeterminism, noundialectic, nounexistentialism, nounfree will, nounhumanism, nounhypothesis, nounidealism, nouninduction, nouninductive, adjectivelateral thinking, nounMarxism, nounmaterialism, nounmetaphysical, adjectivemetaphysics, nounnihilism, nounontology, nounphilosopher, nounphilosophical, adjectivephilosophize, verbpositivism, nounpostulate, nounprecept, nounsolipsism, nounsyllogism, nounTao, nounTaoism, nounthinker, nounthought, nountranscendentalism, nounutilitarian, adjectiveutilitarianism, nounyang, nounyin, nounyin and yang, noun formal something believed to be true, on which an argument or scientific discussion is based → hypothesispostulate of the basic postulates of Marxism
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