0 present participle of postulate --
1 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.
These commentators argue that a theory postulating separate short-term and long-term memory stores is more readily tested by behavioral data.
In terms of geometrical properties of the medium, the most appropriate is to simplify the problem postulating that the porous structure is periodic.
So they must avoid postulating an actual infinity of thoughts within the divine intellect.
We have allowed our agents to increase their sophistication by postulating a time-varying process for the parameters of the model.
He saw no major difficulties in postulating peripheral porosities for the blood to circulate, although he could not visualize them for the time being.
The reason for postulating this axiom was to ensure that in any trajectory the collision times cannot accumulate in finite time.
Trying to escape dealing with individuals by postulating that some monistic external factor accounts for their behaviour is not getting anywhere.
Such a result is difficult for any hypothesis postulating separate networks to explain.
