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Synonyms for postulate
ˈpɒs tʃəˌleɪt; -lɪt, -ˌleɪtpos·tu·late
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
postulate
The distinctive idea of assume is to take by one's own independent volition, whether well or ill, rightfully or wrongfully. One may accept an obligation or assume an authority that properly belongs to him, or he may assume an obligation or indebtedness that could not be required of him. He may assume authority or office that is his right; if he assumes what does not belong to him, he is said to arrogate or usurp it. A man may usurp the substance of power in the most unpretending way; what he arrogates to himself he assumes with a haughty and overbearing manner. One assumes the robes or insignia of office by putting them on, with or without right. If he takes to himself the credit and appearance of qualities he does not possess, he is said to affect or feign, or to pretend to, the character he thus assumes. What a debater postulates he openly states and takes for granted without proof; what he assumes he may take for granted without mention. A favorite trick of the sophist is quietly to assume as true what would at once be challenged if expressly stated. What a man claims he asserts his right to take; what he assumes he takes.
Synonyms:
accept, affect, appropriate, arrogate, assume, claim, feign, presume, pretend, put on, take, usurp
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Princeton's WordNet
postulate, positverb
(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
Synonyms:
positcontend, postulateverb
maintain or assert
"He contended that Communism had no future"
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fence, fight, ask, demand, make do, involve, need, deal, vie, manage, compete, struggle, necessitate, posit, debate, argue, repugn, grapple, require, take, contend, cope, make out, get by, call for, contestpostulate, positverb
take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
"He posited three basic laws of nature"
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call for, state, involve, take, ask, need, put forward, posit, require, fix, necessitate, demand, contend, deposit, situate, submitnecessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demandverb
require as useful, just, or proper
"It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
Synonyms:
require, read, pick up, occupy, subscribe to, withdraw, lead, ingest, inquire, take on, carry, deal, assume, have, hold, choose, study, learn, fill, necessitate, bespeak, invite, imply, consume, drive, hire, posit, consider, need, rent, pick out, collect, quest, contract, adopt, film, remove, demand, gather up, lease, take aim, want, take up, train, strike, use up, select, take, engage, make, claim, regard, enquire, request, get hold of, exact, take away, pack, call for, affect, expect, bring, command, submit, convey, shoot, aim, direct, contend, charter, get, contain, take in, subscribe, involve, acquire, look at, accept, guide, admit, ask, conduct
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
postulatenoun
Synonyms:
supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, assumption, theory, speculation, axiom, assumed truthpostulatenoun
Synonyms:
(Geom.) self-evident problem
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There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.
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- مسلمةArabic
- postulátCzech
- Voraussetzung, postulieren, PostulatGerman
- postulatoEsperanto
- postuladoSpanish
- قیاس منطقیPersian
- postuloida, oletusFinnish
- postuler, postulatFrench
- foshuíomhIrish
- postulareItalian
- להניחHebrew
- 公準Japanese
- postulōLatin
- postulaatDutch
- postulere, postulatNorwegian
- постулатRussian
- постулат, postulatSerbo-Croatian
- postulat, förutsättning, axiom, postuleraSwedish
- పోస్టులేట్Telugu
- 假定Chinese
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