I. verb
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Darwin postulated the modern theory of evolution.
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Again, inhibition of suppressor cell activity was postulated to be responsible.
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Enlightenment philosophers postulated a social contract to which rational, independent men could be expected to agree.
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I agree with Mr. Park that in the case postulated the will would have been validly executed.
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It has been further postulated that pouchitis represents a recurrence of ulcerative colitis in reservoirs with colonic metaplasia.
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The relationship he postulates is not one-way traffic; it is dialectical.
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This idolatrous crowd postulates an ideal worthy of itself and appropriate to its nature, that is perfectly understandable.
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To begin with, it postulates that the hero of your story is in danger.
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a proof of Kepler's mathematical postulate
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Because even an idiotic postulate needs to be disproved by scientific means.
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But a postulate in a Euclidean system must be accepted in order to maintain the integrity of the whole.
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For instance, theorists of social representation have developed Durkheim's postulate that collective representations should have theoretical primacy over individual representations.
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Here Moscovici is offering a universal postulate about social psychological processes.
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It is, at best, a postulate .
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It would be reasonable to accept any postulate that would make it more probable.
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Proving Koch's postulates would of course be unethical and controversy is fuelled by this lack of scientific certainty.
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So many false starts, blind alleys, postulates which decayed before the end of the argument.