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Given these postulates is this acceptable to you (remember there is always the option that I is false and that II is true)?

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Why do people get their panties in a wad when someone postulates from the opposite spectrum †¦ If you†™ ve got a good link for a site that†™ s done some responsible research †¦ I†™ d love to have it.

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Yet we also realize that the shame he postulates is not all the shame that he feels.

Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003

Why do people get their panties in a wad when someone postulates from the opposite spectrum … If you’ve got a good link for a site that’s done some responsible research … I’d love to have it.

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A theory axiomatized according to these require - ments will then no longer contain at its base the three kinds of propositions (definitions, axioms, postulates) in the traditional geometrical demonstrations inspired by Euclid, but will consist of a group of propositions of a single kind; it will make no difference whether they are called postulates or axioms since the axioms, having lost their privileged self-evidence, have hence - forth the same function as postulates.

AXIOMATIZATION ROBERT BLANCH 1968

Cairnes gives too little attention to the effects of the organism of society on economic facts, and that he is disposed to overlook what Bagehot called the postulates of political economy.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

As for the U.S. -- well, our "postulates," if not entirely accurate, were at least (as always) above reproach.

Ellis Weiner: American Idealism, Buckley-Style 2008

The point may be illustrated by considering the set of 'postulates' explicitly made in the geometry of Euclid.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various

Philosophy speculates and reasons, while amusing itself with the kaleidoscope of "postulates" and "categories."

The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology 1877

The first step to an estimate of the value of the doctrine would be to draw up a statement of the 'postulates' implied.

The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868