postulation

Example Sentences

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“But the postulation by the Jesuits wanted to bypass it.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2024

These days, an interview with Mastraieni is just as likely to discuss comedy theory as it is political postulation.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2021

By analogy, what we need explaining is why the only universe we’ve ever observed is fine-tuned, and the postulation of other universes doesn’t account for this.

From Scientific American • Jan. 10, 2021

It’s figures like these that encourage the postulation of doomsday scenarios, familiar from science fiction, in which humanity risks extinction.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2018

Therefore, if this conception necessarily involves the postulation of a first cause, there can be no doubt that such a cause can only be conceived as of the nature of mind.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John