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Postulate in sentence

16 examples of Postulate in a sentence

They postulate fundamental laws governing them, like the laws of gravity or of quantum mechanics.
The natural thing to do is to postulate consciousness itself as something fundamental, a fundamental building block of nature.
This fifth mysterious postulate is known simply as the parallel postulate.
You see, unlike the first four, the fifth postulate is worded in a very convoluted way.
Many mathematicians over the centuries tried to prove the parallel postulate from the other four, but weren't able to do so.
In the process, they began looking at what would happen logically if the fifth postulate were actually not true.
They all experimented with negating the parallel postulate, only to discover that this gave rise to entire alternative geometries.
The big mystery is whether Euclid had any inkling of the existence of these different geometries when he wrote his postulate.
Maybe he did know and he wrote the postulate in such a way as to leave curious minds after him to flush out the details.
I've stitched Euclid's parallel postulate on to the surface.
So here, in wool, through a domestic feminine art, is the proof that the most famous postulate in mathematics is wrong.
And that means that if we want to avail ourselves of it, we're allowed to postulate chemical events in the origin of life which have a probability as low as one in 100 billion billion.
There are theories in both spiritual and scientific circles that postulate that whenever we make a decision like this we in fact make them both.
The second classical postulate Keynes identified was that the “real wage is equal to the marginal disutility of labor.”
In other words, Christian eschatology was transformed into a secular historical postulate.
Yet, at a time when distinguishing right from wrong seems to be more difficult than ever, this classic postulate – the “Golden Rule” – seems to be going out of fashion.