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first duty of the postulator is to conduct thorough investigations into the life of the candidate for beatification. The postulator also has responsibility...

Koch's postulates (/kɒx/ KOKH) are four criteria designed to establish a causal relationship between a microbe and a disease. The postulates were formulated...

In number theory, Bertrand's postulate is the theorem that for any integer n > 3 {\displaystyle n>3} , there exists at least one prime number p {\displaystyle...

In geometry, the parallel postulate, also called Euclid's fifth postulate because it is the fifth postulate in Euclid's Elements, is a distinctive axiom...

The Planck postulate (or Planck's postulate), one of the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics, is the postulate that the energy of oscillators...

The mentalist postulate is the thesis that meaning in natural language is an information structure that is mentally encoded by human beings. It is a basic...

In formal semantics and philosophy of language, a meaning postulate is a way of stipulating a relationship between the meanings of two or more words....

geometry, the AA postulate states that two triangles are similar if they have two corresponding angles congruent. The AA postulate follows from the fact...

An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments...

Hammond's postulate (or alternatively the Hammond–Leffler postulate), is a hypothesis in physical organic chemistry which describes the geometric structure...

In relativistic cosmology, Weyl's postulate stipulates that in the Friedmann model of the universe (a fluid cosmological model), the wordlines of fluid...

Molecular Koch's postulates are a set of experimental criteria that must be satisfied to show that a gene found in a pathogenic microorganism encodes a...

seemed so intuitively obvious (with the possible exception of the parallel postulate) that theorems proved from them were deemed absolutely true, and thus...

principle now called the postulates of special relativity. Einstein's formulation is said[by whom?] to only require two postulates, though his derivation...

The state postulate is a term used in thermodynamics that defines the given number of properties to a thermodynamic system in a state of equilibrium....

evident in his criticism of contemporaneous attempts to prove the parallel postulate in Euclidean geometry. Writing shortly before the discovery of hyperbolic...

The Born rule is a postulate of quantum mechanics that gives the probability that a measurement of a quantum system will yield a given result. In its...

F_{X'_{n}}={[F(x)]}^{n}} If there is a limiting distribution of interest, the stability postulate states that the limiting distribution is some sequence of transformed...

axiom is an axiom that can be used instead of the fifth postulate of Euclid (the parallel postulate): In a plane, given a line and a point not on it, at...

system postulate (tensor product postulate) can be derived from the state postulate (Postulate I) and the measurement postulates (Postulates II); Moreover...