postulating

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The research is anchored in a theory postulating that emotions are generated when human cognition evaluates events from various perspectives.

From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2024

“I love Mario, and I don’t want to have a thing with him,” he said, before postulating that he and Paciorek did possibly coin the baseball expression “emergency swing.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2023

In their search for this primordial symmetry, however, physicists have gone off the deep end, postulating particles and energies and dimensions whose existence can never be experimentally verified.

From Scientific American • Oct. 8, 2019

The retinex theory of color vision explains color constancy by postulating the existence of three retinexes or image systems, associated with the three types of cones that are compared to obtain sophisticated information.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Flamsteed was one of the first people to suggest that the phenomenon was really a single object, postulating that it had been repelled from the Sun by some sort of magnetic effect.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin