4 sentences with 'postulated'

Example sentences and phrases with the word postulated and other words derived from it.

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« 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. »
« 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. »

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