(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
Verb:
maintain or assert;
\\\"He contended that Communism had no future\\\"
take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom;
\\\"He posited three basic laws of nature\\\"
require as useful, just, or proper;
\\\"It takes nerve to do what she did\\\"
\\\"success usually requires hard work\\\"
\\\"This job asks a lot of patience and skill\\\"
\\\"This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice\\\"
\\\"This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert\\\"
\\\"This intervention does not postulate a patient\\\'s consent\\\"
造句
用作名詞(n.)
A combinatin of sources of uranium may be the most realistic postulate. 各種鈾來源的綜合考慮可能是最現實的假說。
Authority is a postulate of the moral order and derives from God. 權威是一種道德秩序的主張，并且它來源于上帝。
If so we shall have a wave function that satisfies our new postulate . 如果事實確是如此，我們就得到了一個滿足新假設的波函數。
用作及物動詞(vt.)
The school building programme postulates an increase in educational investment. 修建校舍的規劃是在增加教育經費的前提下擬定的。
He postulated that a cure for the disease will have been found by the year 2000. 他推斷到2000年能研究出治愈該病的方法。
They postulate excessive increase in price. 他們把物價過度增長視為當然。
常用短語
accrual postulate
[經] 應計的假定...
homogeneity postulate
齊一性的假設...
lattice postulate
點陣假設
continuity postulate
持續經營假設...
accounting postulate
[經] 會計假定...
組詞
The first postulate of this hypothesis is..the assumption of total coherence.
出自：N. Frye
Therapy depends..on the postulate that the truth of a person\\\'s life can be uncovered in therapy.
出自：J. Masson
The chapter was then allowed to postulate the bishop of Bath.