While Copernicus postulated a cosmical scheme that was correct as to its main features, he did not altogether break away from certain defects of the Ptolemaic hypothesis.
This cosmical scheme, it should be added, may be made to explain the observed motions of the heavenly bodies, but it involves a much more complex mechanism than is postulated by the Copernican theory.
But no sooner is this being postulated than there arises the yearning of man after himself, after his own nature, and man is immediately re-established.
And thus, out of the need for salvation is postulated something transcending human nature, a being different from man.
Descent from this ancestor postulated kinship between the various members of the tribe, male and female; therefore the female members were not eligible for marriage with the males, who had perforce to seek for wives elsewhere.
It is rather the recognition, exploitation, and adjustment of the imaginary mystic relation of the individual or of the body of organized persons to the postulated orendas, mystic powers, surrounding each of these units of native society.
But the values conserved are not those created: they are the values postulated by philosophy as metaphysical reality.
Now it moves in the higher circles of postulated relations and arbitrarily defined entities to which its humble progenitors and relatives are denied the entree.
First, how should the impacts postulated by this theory take place; is it according to the laws of perfectly elastic bodies, or according to those of bodies devoid of elasticity, or according to an intermediate law?
In 1668, he postulated the correct theory of impacts of inelastic bodies, based on the principle of conservation of momentum.
Olaus Roemer, a Danish astronomer, postulated that Jupiter's eclipses of its moons lasted seconds longer the farther away Jupiter was from the earth because it took their light longer to reach the earth.
The undulatory vibration postulated by Fresnel having been generally accepted as explaining most optical phenomena, it became necessary to determine the mechanical properties of the aether which transmits this motion.
Most thinkers believe that such a medium must be postulated if we are to explain the transmission of physical actions between bodies at a distance from one another.
It would seem as if the twentieth century could afford at least one book built up from the present, instead of being postulated from the past.
It is preposterous to say that these bones have lain thus exposed to the weather for the millions of years postulated by the popular theory.
He again postulated that perhaps there really was no love--just people who having no extrinsic value in the universe at large clung to each other for meaning.
It was the same question that Nawin had postulated silently in his own head and he felt even more inclined to call him a friend for this affinity to his own private ponderings.
Being a Thai-American with a girlfriend who had been French, his was a triple indictment--at least so he postulated to himself humorously.
The point which the analogy is adduced to prove is therefore postulated by the fact of its being adduced at all, and the whole argument resolves itself into a case of petitio principii.
Marx's labour-value is not only a logical generalisation, it is also a fact conceived andpostulated as typical, i.
To speak plainly, Marx stated the problem in unappropriate language; he represented this typical value itself, postulated by him as a standard, as being the law governing the economic phenomena of capitalist society.
The Jewish teachers postulated a religion distinct from every other belief, self-sufficient, owning no interpreter save the Law and the Scriptures.
Akabori has demonstrated experimentally the formation of cystinyl and cysteinyl residue in his above-postulated mechanism.
The postulated weight data, however, represent approximations, particularly with respect to auxiliary equipment and construction materials.
It has even been postulated that the basic information is stored in nonneuronocortical material.
The existence of the puru.sa is to be postulated for explaining the illumination of consciousness and for explaining experience and moral endeavour.
M131) The unity in multiplicity thuspostulated by the Californians is very noticeable and helps to explain their motive for killing the divine bird.
The condition is of course artificial, but it represents the actual processes of nature as well as may be, consistently with the postulated incompressibility and homogeneity.
The fact that the emotions of crowds are apt to be very violent has long been recognised, and the popular mind, in seeking to account for it, has commonly postulated very special and even supernatural causes.
The necessary social conditions postulated were not found in places where the belief is found.
An idea, which excludes the existence of our body, cannot be postulated in our mind, but is contrary thereto.
This cause of existence must either be contained in the nature and definition of the thing defined, or must be postulated apart from such definition.
But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause; therefore (III.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postulated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
