Postulation Synonyms

Something taken to be true without proof
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. assumption
  2. postulate
  3. premise
  4. presupposition
  5. predication
  6. supposition
  7. theory
  8. thesis
A formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. request
  2. petition

Words Related to Postulation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. reason
  2. natural theology
  3. teleology

Postulation Sentence Examples

  • The pamphlet begins by re-stating with reference to sight the general theory that perception of an objective world rests upon an instinctive causal postulation, which even when it misleads still remains to haunt us (instead of being, like errors of reason, open to extirpation by evidence), and proceeds to deal with physiological colour, i.e.

  • 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.

  • Mankiw has had an abiding intellectual fascination with A W Phillips '1958 postulation of a trade-off between wage inflation and unemployment.