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Pronunciation: [pˈɒst͡ʃʊlˌe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Postulates, often referred to as assumptions or hypotheses, are statements that are taken to be true without any proof or evidence. In scientific research, postulates are used as a starting point for experiments or investigations. Synonyms for postulates include conjectures, axioms, premises, assumptions, suppositions, and propositions. Conjectures are educated guesses or assumptions based on incomplete information. Axioms are self-evident truths that are not dependent on proof or evidence. Premises are statements that serve as the basis for an argument or theory. Assumptions are beliefs or values taken for granted without being verified. Suppositions are ideas that are unsupported by evidence or knowledge. Lastly, propositions are statements or claims that can be tested or verified.
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And if that is so, the circumstance which excites Mr. George's surprise, that economists have always so clearly apprehended the law of rent itself, and yet failed so completely to recognise the corollaries which he plumes himself on being the first to deduce from it, admits of a very simple explanation: the economists understood the law they expounded, and were better reasoners than to employ it as a demonstration of its own postulates.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
"Immediate empiricism," he says, "postulates that things-anything, everything, in the ordinary or non-technical use of the term 'thing'-are what they are experienced as.
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard
We shall see soon enough that not only the various elements of the situation awake very different demands, but that often any single feature may lead to social postulates which interfere with each other.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg

Famous quotes with Postulates

  • Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
    Gottfried Leibniz
  • I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.
    William Howard Taft
  • Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.
    Lao Tzu
  • A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
    Northrop Frye
  • The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.
    Margaret Mead

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