postulations
Claims requiring proof
Postulations are things that have been assumed or put forward as premises for reasoning.
A postulation is something proposed as a starting point rather than proven—a foundational claim from which other conclusions follow.
The term appears most often in philosophical, mathematical, or theoretical contexts: His argument rests on several questionable postulations.
Guess from limited facts
- premiseFoundation for logical argument
- propositionStatement expressing a judgment
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
extrapolation · prediction · deduction · corollary · theorizing · hypothesizing · speculation · surmise
Explanations based on evidence
- axiomsAccepted starting principles
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- modelsScaled representations or fashion workers
- paradigmsAccepted models of thought
theorems · propositions · doctrines · tenets · systems · canons · laws · foundations
Philosophy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- logicScience of valid reasoning
- syllogismFormal deductive argument structure
dialectic · empiricism · rationalism · phenomenology · existentialism · pragmatism · idealism · realism
conjecture
Guess from limited facts
- premiseFoundation for logical argument
- propositionStatement expressing a judgment
- thesisAcademic argument requiring defense
inference · extrapolation · prediction · deduction · corollary · theorizing · hypothesizing · speculation · surmise · guesswork
theories
Explanations based on evidence
- axiomsAccepted starting principles
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- modelsScaled representations or fashion workers
paradigms · theorems · propositions · doctrines · tenets · systems · canons · laws · foundations · premises
metaphysics
Philosophy of existence's nature
- epistemologyTheory of knowledge
- ontologyStudy of existence's nature
- logicScience of valid reasoning
syllogism · dialectic · empiricism · rationalism · phenomenology · existentialism · pragmatism · idealism · realism · dualism
postulationsproofs
Demonstrations of truth
demonstrations · confirmations · certainties · validations · axioms
postulationsdeductions
Conclusions from reasoning
derivations · conclusions · inferences · proofs · demonstrations