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postulatenoun something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoningone of the postulates that the true agnostic rejects is the assumption that it is even possible for us to know whether God exists assumption, given, hypothetical, if, premise(also premiss), presumption, presupposition, supposition hypothesis, proposition, theory, thesisaxiom, truism, veritybelief, canon, doctrine, dogma, gospel, lawprecept, principle, rule, standard, tenetbasis, foundation, groundconclusion, deduction, inferenceaffirmation, assertion, avouchment, declarationdictum, ipse dixit to take as true or as a fact without actual proofpostulates that all people are born with certain rights that can never be taken away from them assume, hypothecate, hypothesize, premise, presume, presuppose, say, suppose accept, believe, credit, swallowconclude, deduce, gather, infer, judge, takeconjecture, figure, guess, reckon(chiefly dialect), surmise, suspect, suspicion(chiefly dialect), thinkconceive, dream, fancy, imagine, perceive, preconceivespeculate, theorizeaffirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, claim, contend, declare, insist, maintain, profess take for granted challenge, controvert, disagree (with), disbelieve, discount, discredit, dispute, distrust, doubt, mistrust, question, wonder (about)deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, reject, repudiatebelie, confute, disprove, rebut, refute in 1590 |