postulating
present participle ofpostulate
| 单词 | postulating |
| 释义 | postulating present participle ofpostulate postulate verb[IorT] formaluk/ˈpɒs.tʃə.leɪt/us/ˈpɑːs.tʃə.leɪt/tosuggestatheory,idea, etc. as abasicprinciplefrom which afurtherideaisformedordeveloped: [+ that]It was theGreekastronomer, Ptolemy, who postulatedthattheearthwas at thecentreof theuniverse. Suggestions & proposals
Examplesofpostulatingpostulating In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. False conspiracy theories can be saved bypostulatingbigger conspiracies to cover up the problems they encounter. From theCambridge English Corpus Thepostulatingof diverging paths should, in my opinion, require more substantial support from specific empirical evidence. From theCambridge English Corpus Postulatinga moral right is not always and necessarily to affirm that the right is absolute-is never legitimately overridden by any combination of moral reasons. From theCambridge English Corpus The advantage ofpostulatingsuch a dependency is that the grammar rules used for subordinate clauses are also applicable in main clauses. From theCambridge English Corpus This is quite a different approach to justice thanpostulatinga veil of ignorance. From theCambridge English Corpus If so, thenpostulatinga veil of ignorance is a quite different move frompostulatingimpartiality. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps one group is right and the other wrong, but neither ispostulatinga policy as ridiculous as oceans full of lemonade. From theCambridge English Corpus Such a result is difficult for any hypothesispostulatingseparate networks to explain. From theCambridge English Corpus Trying to escape dealing with individuals bypostulatingthat some monistic external factor accounts for their behaviour is not getting anywhere. From theCambridge English Corpus The reason forpostulatingthis axiom was to ensure that in any trajectory the collision times cannot accumulate in finite time. From theCambridge English Corpus He saw no major difficulties inpostulatingperipheral porosities for the blood to circulate, although he could not visualize them for the time being. From theCambridge English Corpus We have allowed our agents to increase their sophistication bypostulatinga time-varying process for the parameters of the model. From theCambridge English Corpus So they must avoidpostulatingan actual infinity of thoughts within the divine intellect. From theCambridge English Corpus In terms of geometrical properties of the medium, the most appropriate is to simplify the problempostulatingthat the porous structure is periodic. From theCambridge English Corpus These commentators argue that a theorypostulatingseparate short-term and long-term memory stores is more readily tested by behavioral data. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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