What is "postulates"

Usage examples of "postulates".

I've gone over the words and the postulates, and nothing seems to have changed.

As if they intuitively knew what she had logically worked out—that their postulates would be dangerously changed if they were forced to accept a reality that contradicted them.

If a spell did not work, or worked differently, then, by her hypothesis, it meant one of its postulates had changed.

Its postulates, logical development, and conclusion devastated the poor Wends.

He postulates that synchronicity of the women's cycles made them ready to conceive, then that the mixing of seed allowed strong to supplant weak, and finally, that the womb has no defense against unfamiliar seed.

The words she chanted were not rhythmic noises but a language, carefully constructed postulates that shaped her thoughts—and through them, her reality.

And because it postulates an unbroken wheel, it stops at the most remote place in .

How many books would she have to read to define the postulates of a spell like the Veil?

The magic had been complex, but here where all magics adhered precisely to their original postulates, precision was enough.

Geometry is a good example, where a set of initial postulates considered to be self-evident (Euclid's five, for example) is operated on by the rules of logic to produce theorems, which in turn yield further theorems, and so on.

If selection from variations were really capable of producing such astounding transformations as a bacterium to a fish or a reptile to a bird, even in the immense spans of time that the theory postulates, then these experiments should have revealed some hint of it.

The prime criteria for making this distinction are known as Koch's Postulates, from a paper by the German medical doctor Robert Koch published in 1884 following years of investigation into such conditions as anthrax, wound infections, and TB.

But Koch's Postulates are simply a formalization of commonsense logic, not a statement about microbes per se.

Neither assumption can be verified as of this writing, but the first assumption is strongly supported by statistical analysis of the list of names supplied by Subject of previously unsuspected members of Howard kin group, which analysis also supports Subject's estimate of total size of group, and second assumption when taken negatively postulates that star group holding Search Object has been able to apply it with no social-space of contact, an absurdity.

Entering a new field with postulates which work in all directions—and the basic philosophy of survival is a pilot which leads us on and on into further and further realms, explaining and predicting phenomena on every hand—it is inevitable that data will turn up which does not agree with past theory.