Your Daily Word Prompt – Postulate – January 28, 2020

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POSTULATE

verb (used with object), pos·tu·lat·ed, pos·tu·lat·ing.

to ask, demand, or claim.

to claim or assume the existence or truth of, especially as a basis for reasoning or arguing.

to assume without proof, or as self-evident; take for granted.

Mathematics, Logic. to assume as a postulate.

noun

something taken as self-evident or assumed without proof as a basis for reasoning.

Mathematics, Logic. a proposition that requires no proof, being self-evident, or that is for a specific purpose assumed true, and that is used in the proof of other propositions; axiom.

a fundamental principle.

a necessary condition; prerequisite.

Definition from Dictionary.com

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