It also postulates a broad culture, inclusive of the specific bearing of genetic parallels and the reverse; and, as a matter of course, close study of such as the etiology of crime, and of individual and race psychology.
Here, you have the Hugoistic echo, to the effect that the mere badge of authority postulates degradation.
III We may define more particularly the relation of Ethics to Dogmatics by enumerating briefly the doctrinal postulates or assumptions with which Ethics starts.
It postulates the reality of a living God who invites our co-operation, and it encourages our belief in a higher spiritual order which it is within our power to achieve.
It is,' as Wundt says, 'to derive all the moral postulates that have been produced in our minds by previous moral development from moral life as it actually exists.
But by what process, apart from faith and practical postulates and regulative ideas, can subjectivism pass to belief in other free agencies outside the thinking and all-creating self?
These postulates have not been fully met with reference to any disease, but the principles embodied have been applied as far as possible in all those infections which we recognize as specific, and whose causative agent is accepted.
As the predetermination of the will to justification can take no other form than the gratia per se efficax, so sin, considered as an act, necessarily postulates the predetermining influence of the motor primus.
The evolutionist cannot refuse to admit this on as good ground as that on which we hesitate to receive the postulates of his faith.
If, on the contrary, we reject all these, and accept as natural laws the postulates of the evolutionists which we have already discussed, we may become believers in the latter.
In the matter of contract true freedom postulates substantial equality between the parties.
It is founded on personality, and postulates free scope for the development of personality in each member of the community.
So expressed, it will be seen that this right postulates the existence of an ordered society, and lays down that it is the duty of such a society to secure the liberty of its members.
It affords the purest and most lasting pleasure; it approaches most nearly to being self-sufficing, since it postulates little more than the necessaries of life, and is even independent of society, though better with society.
Active social virtue postulates conditions of society and external aids in considerable measure; but the life of intellect requires only the minimum of these, and is even impeded by much of them.
In MINOS (or the Definition of Law) he refuses to accept the decree of the state as a law, but postulates the decision of some Ideal wise man.
In this specious bit of special pleading, unwarranted postulates are assumed and much confusion of thought is displayed.
As the individual becomes conscious of farther and farther reaching and more and more complicated results of the act, he postulates these as ends, not forgetting, however, important ends earlier postulated.
A still greater confusion exists in the present editions of Euclid between the postulates and axioms so called, but this is due to later editors and not to Euclid himself.
The postulatesof the one are not those of the other; and the more the scientific spirit is developed, the fewer the postulates of any sort that it is ready to accept.
Every science begins withpostulates and only that which fulfills such postulates has the dignity of truth in the midst of that scientific realm.
Morality postulates that everyone find conditions in which he can be victorious if he puts his strongest efforts to the task.
He postulates it, and where he does not discover the causes, he is sure that he has not solved the real problem.
Each thinker is apt to take thepostulates congenial to his own mind as the plain dictates of reason.
But the utility of society means much more than the utility of a railway company or a club, which postulates as existing a whole series of already established institutions.
His real problem comes to be: how the conclusions which are agreeable to his emotions can be connected with the postulates which are congenial to his intellect?
Its postulates are more or less implied in the doctrines which guide them in practice, but are not explicitly stated or deliberately reasoned out.
What he does may be done voluntarily, in full coincidence with his own will: for the will postulates only the controul of reason over emotion, and here that condition is fulfilled, the fault lying with the controuling reason itself.
Plato, as lawgiver, postulates poetry and music of his own dictation.
Among the Demos or multitude, he postulates nothing except unlimited submission to the orders of the Rulers enforced through the Guardians.
Here every man desires and postulates that which is really good: while as to the just and the honourable, many are satisfied with the appearance, without caring for the reality.
Now the first of these two postulates religion has frequently, although not always, shared with the moralists, that is, with those who devote themselves to teaching us how to act rightly.
In fact the two parties may condemn each other all the more because both accept the two postulates upon which the quest for salvation is based.
These were originally published in the Fortnightly Review, in 1876, and are now republished, with some other materials for the author's proposed work, under the title of The Postulates of English Political Economy.
He too postulates a mixture of all substances, more consciously and definitely indeed than his predecessor.
Behind the subject which presents my world he postulates a real world which is not my world, but which my world represents.
Corollaries of this axiom soon appeared in the postulates of the conservation of matter or mass, and the conservation of energy, or more properly for the ancients, of motion.
But they are--as Kant maintained--two modes of looking at things, both of which are postulates of our capacity for knowing.
And it is of the greatest importance to religion that these presuppositions and postulates should have their legitimacy and validity vindicated.
For they are at once the fundamental and the minimal postulates which religion must make in its outlook on the world, which it must make if it is to exist at all.
He postulates a God, and he postulates a region, and he postulates a communication, and then talks about all thesepostulates as if they were facts.
Now while the doctrine of transmigration postulates this singular affinity, it offers no explanation of it.
II This doctrine rests, in part, upon a certain number of linguistic postulates which have been and still are very much questioned.
Inversely, Usener, in his Goetternamen, rejects certain hypotheses of Max Mueller which will be described below, but admits the principal postulates of naturism.
The mind posits this connection before having any proofs of it, under the empire of a sort of constraint from which it cannot free itself; it postulates it, as they say, a priori.
Here again we find ourselves in the presence of one of those postulates which pass as evident only because they have not been criticized.
And as action cannot go beyond intelligence, it frequently happens that the latter is drawn into the same way and accepts without discussion the theoretical postulates demanded by action.
The apriorist postulatesthis singular quality, but does not account for it; for saying that the categories are necessary because they are indispensable to the functioning of the intellect is simply repeating that they are necessary.
Abstract humanitarianism, and scientific naturalism do not constitute a moral standard, nor can scientific postulates be made a basis for moral culture.
One of the eternal indisputable postulates of science was that "two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
The mark of its origin is upon it in the need of exhibiting some existing situation through which the non-contradictory character of its postulates can be verified.
And this is true even of such apparently essentially intuitional fields as projective geometry, where entities can be substituted for directional lines and the axioms be turned into relational postulates governing their configurations.
Enriques finds a parallel between the historical development and the psycho-genetic development of the postulates of geometry (loc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postulates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
