Thesaurus / postulate
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While the war lasted, so he laid down, there must—apart from the postulate of Unity—be a truce to party struggles.
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KINGHe receives as a postulate that which I must have demonstrated.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE - VOLUME 55, NO. 343, MAY 1844VARIOUSBut I disagree with them all, because they postulate the idea that time is constantly being manufactured.
THE DAY TIME STOPPED MOVINGBRADNER BUCKNERMark Twain's early life, however imperfectly recorded, exemplifies this postulate.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINEAll theologians and some metaphysicians postulate a fifth state of life, the divine, placing it above the rest as their source.
COMMUNISM AND CHRISTIANISMWILLIAM MONTGOMERY BROWNBut the ancient Church did not postulate the future Church, and did not regard her, as we postulate and regard the ancient.
THE THOUGHTS OF BLAISE PASCALBLAISE PASCALIf you don't think the "Universal Postulate" first-rate, I shall renounce you as a critic.
GEORGE ELIOT'S LIFE, VOL. I (OF 3)GEORGE ELIOTFor what is your famous "two aspects" principle more than the postulate that the world is thoroughly intelligible in nature?
THE LETTERS OF WILLIAM JAMES, VOL. 1WILLIAM JAMESIf this small proportion is recognized, it justifies the postulate that nobody on earth may attain to 150 years.
CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGYHANS GROSSThen what has become of the postulate that truth is agreement of idea with existence beyond idea?
ESSAYS IN EXPERIMENTAL LOGICJOHN DEWEYSYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO POSTULATE
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- assumption
- authority
- axiom
- backbone
- background
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- base
- bedrock
- cause
- center
- chief ingredient
- core
- crux
- data
- dictum
- essence
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- premise
- presumption
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- principal element
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- source
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- theorem
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- acceptances
- admissions
- assents
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- assurances
- avowals
- axioms
- certainties
- conclusions
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- convictions
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- credits
- deductions
- divinations
- expectations
- faiths
- fancies
- feelings
- guesses
- hopes
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- ideas
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- judgments
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- professions
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- suppositions
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- theorems
- theories
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- thinkings
- trusts
- understandings
- views
- adduce
- advance
- allege
- ask
- assert
- believe
- call for
- challenge
- collect
- declare
- defend
- exact
- have dibs on something
- hit
- hit up
- hold
- hold out for
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- justify
- knock
- lay claim to
- need
- pick up
- pop the question
- postulate
- pretend
- profess
- pronounce
- require
- requisition
- solicit
- stake out
- take
- uphold
- vindicate
- adduced
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