So that the postulate upon which the following articles are based is:—“All men who have the power to exert a mutual influence upon one another must be under a civil government of some kind.
But thispostulate does not seek for justification in abstract metaphysical reasoning.
We must start from the postulate that there is in fact a Divine order in the universe; and that conformity to this order produces beauty as embodied in the external world, and is the condition of virtue as regulating our character.
In this way the postulate justifies itself by producing the noblest type of character.
All the different expressions given to the Categorical Imperatives are synthetic practical propositions a priori; they postulate a possible synthetic use of the pure practical reason.
Besides, this precaution is also a postulateof anthropologic science.
Its fundamental postulate is the difference of temperature between the nebulæ and the surrounding space.
They would scorn to postulate such a theory, or accept any such absurd remnant of the old vitalistic school.
To postulate any such theory of life, is going beyond the limits of experimental research and inquiry, and hence adopting an unscientific method.
If Reinke would be consistent, he ought to postulate a "dominant" for every crystal, to control the order and direction of the particles in its formation.
We postulate no supernatural vital force for the explanation of physiological functions, and we are just as far from admitting it as regulator or agency of the biogenetic process.
But how can the belief in God, freedom, and immortality determine one's whole view of life as a postulate of practical reason if we cannot form any definite idea of them?
The causal explanation must be mechanistic, if we are not to postulate a metaphysical entity as first cause.
Freud's theory of repression does, indeed, seem to postulate the existence only of people who, being too moral, are continually repressing the immorality of their natural instincts.
If this were the case, we should have to postulate an unexpected intensity of the primary incestuous tendencies.
I postulate a hypothetical fundamental striving which I designate libido.
Here we are at one; but there remains a postulate we must establish to the satisfaction of others if we want recognition for our views.
Hence,' says Mayer, 'that a fixed relation subsists between heat and work, is a postulate of the physiological theory of combustion.
Here some postulate two currents of consciousness existing at the same time in one person without reciprocal connection.
Now expectation, never without its requisite antecedents and natural necessity, often lacks fulfilment, and never finds its fulfilment entire; so that the necessity of a postulate gives no warrant for its verification.
To denounce one authority he needs to invoke another, and if no other be found, he will invent or, as they say, he will postulate one.
A postulate acted on is an act of genuine and dogmatic faith.
I not only postulate a morrow when I prepare for it, but ingenuously and heartily believe that the morrow will come.
But no one could maintain that from this definition it follows that we are not compelled to postulate design in the mind of the artist who paints a beautiful picture.
Before we conclude, we ought perhaps to make one morepostulate on behalf of female vanity, not less important than our postulate that it should be pleasantly tinged by unselfishness.
This however is a postulate which ought not to be accepted, unless decisive evidence is forthcoming in its favour.
All such cases doubtless postulate conditions so far advanced as to permit the existence of a class of persons who have the opportunity and the ambition to assert their individuality among and above their compatriots.
He stipulates as the most important postulate of studies in family organization the discrimination between authority and consanguinity: "Strenges Auseinanderhalten der Gewaltverhältnisse von den Verwandtschaftsverhältnissen.
This expression does not postulate the existence of any metaphysical entity--any mysterious spiritual medium, independent of any human brains.
Personality is not only the strictest unity of which we have any experience; it is the fact which creates the postulate of unity on which all philosophy is based.
The doctrine has been felt to be a necessary postulate by most philosophers who hold that knowledge of God is possible to man.
A second postulate of the Nebular Hypothesis is the origin of force and motion in the huge gas ball which existed in the beginning.
We conclude that the history of religion does not only fail to support the evolutionistic postulate of a slow upward development of religions from crude original beliefs, but quite the reverse.
We postulate that the pain is associated with the discharge of energy from the brain-cells.
We postulatethat pain is a result of contact ceptor stimulation for the purpose of securing protective muscular activity.
We postulate that pain is one of the phenomena which result from a stimulation to motor action.
As to the mechanism which produces fever, we postulate that it is the same mechanism as that which produces muscular activity.
This postulate gives us the key to the pain-muscular phenomena of peritonitis, pleurisy, cystitis, cholecystitis, etc.
This postulate applies not only to stimuli from visible forces, but to those received by the invasion of the micro-bodies which cause pyogenic or non-pyogenic infections.
We postulate that laughter and weeping serve a useful purpose.
The first postulate shows that he valued the demands of the soul far above social forms.
The property in eclipse will be the great moral postulate usually designated by the term Principle; and the intervening body will be the great immoral postulate, usually known as Interest.
The postulatein question will be totally hid from view, in the course of 6 h.
But it is quite useless to theorize on this subject, for, by that cry in the streets, the lower limb of the great postulate is beginning to be obscured, and, alas!
The eclipse will commence by a motive of monikin vanity coming in contact with the sub-postulate of charity, at 1 A.
Legislation, during the occultation of the great moral postulate Principle by the passage of Pecuniary Interest, is, at the best, but a melancholy affair.
Therefore, it was the Y-like system of deductions which were dealt with in the Examination of Weismannism, while it is only his basal postulate which has to be dealt with in the following chapters.
It is clear that this additional postulate is not needed for his theory of heredity, but only for his additional theory of evolution, &c.
Illustration: Postulateas to the absolute non-inheritance of acquired characters.
