postulate

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.
2. isim A fundamental element; a basic principle.
3. isim An axiom.
4. isim A requirement; a prerequisite.
5. fiil To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.

   “1883, Benedictus de Spinoza, translated by R. H. M. Elwes, Ethics, Part 3, Prop. XXII, But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause; […]”

6. fiil To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.

   “[A]lthough Douglas was postulated to it [the Abbacy of Arbroath], and signed letters and papers under this designation his nomination […] was never completed.”

7. fiil To request, demand or claim for oneself.
8. fiil Alternative form of postulated, past participle of postulate.

   “Quoth he, What Nature can afford, I shall produce upon my word ; And if she ever gave that boon To man, I'll prove that I have one ; I mean, by postulate Illation, When you shall offer just occasion ;[…]”