Crossword-Solution: POSTULATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Postulate | n. | Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged, without argument or evidence. |
| Postulate | n. | The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident theorem. |
| Postulate | a. | Postulated. |
| Postulate | v. t. | To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate conclusions. |
| Postulate | v. t. | To take without express consent; to assume. |
| Postulate | v. t. | To invite earnestly; to solicit. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with POSTULATE (5)
Men about town are women’s favourites—that’s the postulate—and superficial people don’t think far enough to see that there may be reserved, lonely exceptions.” “Are you proud of it, Harry?” “No, indeed.
Any conviction, even if it be a whole system or a whole religion, must pass into the condition of commonplace, or postulate, before it becomes fully operative.
But now, I ask you, how can such an existential account of facts of mental history decide in one way or another upon their spiritual significance? According to the general postulate of psychology just referred to, there is not a single one of our states of mind, high or low, healthy or morbid, that has not some organic process as its condition.
Hegel the German got the best word of all philosophy with his antinomies: the contrary of everything is its postulate.
And yet, from this small postulate, the astronomers proceed to deduce the most astounding conclusions.
Quotes with POSTULATE (3)
Reason excludes faith," Alessandro responded, watching the blood-red mite as it made a dash for the rim. "It's deliberately limited. It won't function with the materials of religion. You can come close to proving the existence of God by reason, but you can't do it absolutely. That's because you can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason. God is a postulate. I don't think God i…
Technos and clerics have much in common. Both take a world that can’t be fully understood and try to explain its fundamental properties. Clerics postulate beliefs that can never be proven; they demand you accept these postulates as your Faith, which will guide your actions and thoughts. It’s a top down way of thinking; start with the big picture and derive rules for living. Fundamental knowledge is static. Even the derived rules rarely change. Technos work from the bottom up.…
Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and deprive you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life.[Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.]
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1953–2007).