| VERB | communication | postulate, contend | maintain or assert |
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| cognition | postulate, posit | take as a given | |
| stative | postulate, necessitate, ask, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand | require as useful, just, or proper | |
| NOUN | communication | postulate, posit | (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning |
| Sounds | paa'schahlaht; paa'schahley.t | |
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| Rhymes | abbot ... zealot / Zealot: 372 rhymes with aht... | |
| abate ... welterweight: 559 rhymes with eyt... | ||
| Meaning | (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonym | posit | |
| Category | logic | The branch of philosophy that analyzes inference |
| Narrower | Bayes' postulate | (statistics) the difficulty of applying Bayes' theorem is that the probabilities of the different causes are seldom known, in which case it may be postulated that they are all equal (sometimes known as postulating the equidistribution of ignorance) |
| premise, premiss, assumption | A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn | |
| Broader | proposition | (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false |
| Spanish | postulado | |
| Catalan | postulat | |
| Verbs | postulate | take as a given |
| Meaning | Maintain or assert. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Synonym | contend | |
| Broader | claim | assert or affirm strongly |
| Meaning | Take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
| Synonym | posit | |
| Narrower | insist, assert | assert to be true |
| Broader | presuppose, suppose | take for granted or as a given |
| Spanish | postular | |
| Catalan | postular | |
| Nouns | postulate | (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning |
| postulation | (logic) a declaration of something self-evident | |
| postulator | someone who assumes or takes something for granted as the basis of an argument | |
| Meaning | require as useful, just, or proper. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Example | "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" | |
| Synonyms | necessitate, ask, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand | |
| Narrower | claim, take, exact | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs |
| compel | Necessitate or exact | |
| cost | require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice | |
| cry out for, cry for | Need badly or desperately | |
| draw | require a specified depth for floating | |
| govern | require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood | |
| Opposite | obviate, rid of, eliminate | Do away with |
| Similar to | claim, take, exact | Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs |
| Spanish | demandar, exigir, implicar, involucrar, necesitar, pedir, precisar, preguntar, reclamar, requerir, solicitar | |
| Catalan | exigir, implicar, involucrar, necessitar, precisar, preguntar, reclamar, requerir | |
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