Sentences with 'postulated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word postulated and other words derived from it.
• « Thales of Miletus had a student, Anaximander, who postulated that instead of floating on water as his teacher had suggested, the Earth was held suspended in space by a perfectly symmetrical balance of forces. »
• « Moreover, the economic theory of the medieval period postulated that there was a finite and limited amount of wealth in the world, and that the only thing one could do to get rich was to get and keep more of it. »
• « In 1687 Newton published the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, which postulated a single universal law of gravitation that applied equally to huge objects like the planet Earth and to tiny objects that could barely be detected by the human senses. »
• « Slavery has a long history. The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle postulated that some peoples were homunculi, or human-like but not really people, for example, if they did not speak Greek. »