Thesaurus / postulation
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Postulation and the verifying of postulates is thus a process of reciprocal discrimination and selection.
PRAGMATISMD.L. MURRAYThe postulation by him of molecular force at this point, is virtually an abandonment of the whole controversy.
LIFE: ITS TRUE GENESISR. W. WRIGHTBoth postulation and verification, then, are applicable to the problems of religion as of science.
PRAGMATISMD.L. MURRAYBut such esoteric combinations are not at all necessary for the postulation of wildly variant life forms.
CUM GRANO SALISGORDON RANDALL GARRETTBut Science has been reluctant to recognise that it is now entitled to dispense with the postulation of Matter.
ESSAYS TOWARDS A THEORY OF KNOWLEDGEALEXANDER PHILIPSuch, then, is the first heavy burden of unauthorized postulation, which the Materialist's theory binds upon him.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL THEOLOGYWILLIAM JACKSONThis postulation, says a close thinker, is the very foundation and essence of religion.
THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENTDANIEL G. BRINTONWORDS RELATED TO POSTULATION
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