He seems to have perceived, what the mystic shoemaker of Germany perceived long after him, that the diversity of nature could not be explained without postulating a principle of negativity or self-differentiation in the very nature of God.
We may cut this knot by simply postulating that real wages per man are constant,[11] without asking why.
The necessity of postulating a Hebrew original was first shown by the present writer, and has since been maintained by Wellhausen (Skizzen u.
From the above instances, which could be multiplied, we have no hesitation in postulating a Hebrew original of i.
Philosophers prior to Galileo had endeavoured to explain the action of a suction pump by postulating a principle that "Nature abhorred a vacuum.
Nor does Browning endeavour to correct this limited testimony of the intellect as to its own states, by bringing in the miraculous aid of revelation, or by postulating an unerring moral faculty.
So that all men are philosophers to the extent of postulating a unity, which is deeper than all differences; and all are alike trying to discover, in however limited or ignorant a way, what that unity is.
The fact that all matter is capable of assuming a gaseous or invisible state furnishes good scientific reasons for postulating the actual existence of intelligent beings possessed of an invisible yet physical body.
For it tries to explain the unity of life only by postulating an all-embracing idea of purpose or use in place of a causal explanation of phenomena such as is now demanded.
Berkeley, it is true, endeavoured to save the situation by postulating the incessant and immediate intervention of the Deity as the sustainer of the sensible panorama.
Now, if electricity, as I have indicated, be due to certain motions in the Aether, then it can easily be seen that postulating atomicity for electricity will be the same as postulating atomicity for the Aether.
So that bypostulating a rotatory movement for the Aether around the sun, as we have done in Art.
Then it will be observed that even after postulating the three laws, Newton was unable to account for the elliptic orbits of the planets, until he had added a Corollary known as the Parallelogram of Forces.
He cannot avoidpostulating thus much: though he likewise postulates a great deal more, which ought not to be granted.
He begins by postulating a perfectly wise man, who knows all truth on the most important social subjects; on which his country-men hold erroneous beliefs, just as sincerely as he holds his true beliefs.
He cannot recognise an infallible common sense: but he has no scruple in postulating an infallible scientific dictator, and in enthroning himself as such.
They followed the lead of Empedocles and Anaxagoras in postulating a widespread, if not absolutely universal, mixture.
Mill agrees with Whewell in postulating a raw material of pure sensational data.
PART II Theories It may be contended, however, that in thus postulating the human will as a physical energy I have not taken into account the alternative explanation of the facts which might be adopted or assumed.
Biology contends that heredity and environment alone are capable of explaining the actions and movements of the lower organisms, without postulatingany "will.
It invited the co-operation of the subject race, instead of merely postulating unconditional submission.
I am not alone, then, in postulating the reality of the group mind.
I am not postulating any extra-mundane power or influence; I am only stating the difficulties which the idealist experiences when he tries to see life in its nature and origin as the scientific mind sees it.
For by postulating a fourth dimension either we have created a new world whose dimensions are four in number or we have explicitly admitted that the three dimensions have a fourth.
Thus an attempt is often made to sit on both sides of the fence, accepting scientific factors for what they are worth, but eking them out by postulating "ultra-scientific" causes.
As to the nature and frequency of inborn variations, Biology has recently begun to accumulate precise observations, and has renounced the bad habit of simply postulating variability without statistically or otherwise defining it.
These were not reassuring since even though postulating a British victory, it appeared inevitable that England would not escape without considerable damage from the American navy and from privateers.
In postulating a considerably numerous community Austin was thinking evidently of small isolated groups which could not without provoking a sense of the ridiculous be termed nations.
The above conclusions are confirmed by a large mass of other evidence postulating the same date.
To accept it as accurate entailed the leaving of enormous gaps in the chronological schemes, even when postulating the highest possible dates for the dynasties of Ur and Babylon.
It withdraws all support from the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans, and it refrains from postulating a lost Apostolic epistle.
And again: while later Gnostics represent the demiurge and giver of the law as antagonistic to the supreme and good God, Cerinthus does not go beyond postulating his ignorance.
The postulating of them marks a gap in our knowledge, and extends our insight only in the degree that it discloses our ignorance.
When, however, such considerations are allowed their due weight, the necessity of postulating a transcendental unity becomes only the more evident.
But, in so doing, Kant never intends to maintain that we are justified in postulating as part of those conditions, or as condition of those conditions, a noumenal self.
For only by postulatingthe possibility of a non-sensuous species of intuition, can the notion of a noumenon, thus positively conceived, be saved from self-contradiction.
Descartes can solve the problem of knowledge only by firstpostulating the doctrine of representative perception.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postulating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
