0 to suggest a theory, idea, etc. as a basic principle from which a further idea is formed or developed: --
[ + that ] It was the Greek astronomer, Ptolemy, who postulated that the earth was at the centre of the universe.
1 an idea that is suggested or accepted as a basic principle before a further idea is formed or developed from it --
2 to suggest or accept that a theory or idea is true as a starting point for reasoning or discussion: --
[ + that clause ] Astronomers postulate that the comet will reappear in 4000 years.
Subsequent research has postulated senses as objects characterised with various degrees of underspecification that implicatures, or indeed other contextual inferences, augment and help to constitute.
Focusing on the logical structure of beliefs, they formulate eight postulates which a revised theory has to verify.
We postulated that the current voluntary reporting system considerably underestimates the number of listeriosis cases.
Perhaps one group is right and the other wrong, but neither is postulating a policy as ridiculous as oceans full of lemonade.
Changing the perspective to an outsider's view reverses the "charity" inherent in this interpretation into a clear-cut sentence against these postulates.
Rather, in my view it postulates the wrong kind of structures, namely mechanical rather than evolutionary ones.
The apparent postponement of saturation is postulated to be due to modification of the flow field by convergence.
The implied adult attachment model thus postulates that earned secures will parent as competently as continuous secures and better than insecures.
