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
Both of them were intent on forcing the theologians into the daylight, and grudged them any aid they might expect from Kant’s postulation of God and immortality to crown the edifice of ethics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various
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