postulation
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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
Pending that actuality of union, in the virtuality of which the ‘truth,’ even now, of the postulation consists, the beyond and its knower are entities split off from each other.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James
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