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
Universalia in re were conceived by him as sufficiently explaining the genesis of cognition without the postulation of any such universalia extra rem.
From Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge by Philip, Alexander
