Postulate Synonyms and Antonyms

pŏschə-lāt
To take for granted without proof
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. assume
  2. posit
  3. premise
  4. presume
  5. presuppose
  6. suppose
  7. reckon
Something taken to be true without proof
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. posit
  2. postulation
  3. assumption
  4. premise
  5. presupposition
  6. supposition
  7. theory
  8. thesis
Require as useful, just, or proper
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. necessitate
  2. ask
  3. need
  4. require
  5. take
  6. involve
  7. call for
  8. demand

Words Related to Postulate

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Postulate Sentence Examples

  • Beneath Hamilton's postulate there is a deeper principle of logic - _A rational being thinks only to the point, and speaks only to understand and be understood.

  • Not that men should or can carry this logical postulate out in ordinary life; but it is necessary in the logical analysis of judgments, and yet logicians neglect it.

  • He never conceded the postulate, because, though he knew France better than anybody in England except Arthur Young, he did not know her condition well enough.

  • The second postulate was a sound financial basis, which he expected the wealth of France to supply in the shape of subsidies to be spent on armaments.

  • Asserting that Ideas alone really exist, he yet found it necessary to postulate a second principle of not-being, the groundwork of sensuous existence and of imperfection and evil.

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