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

This is the origin of the modern scientific concept of matter and of ether, namely they are the outcome of this insistent habit of postulation.

From The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 by Whitehead, Alfred North