1. Take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
   "He postulated three basic laws of nature";
   - posit
    
2. Maintain or assert
   "He postulated that Communism had no future";
   - contend
    
3. Make essential as a condition or prerequisite
   "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent";
   - necessitate, ask, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand

1. (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
   "The existence of an objective reality is a common postulate in scientific inquiry";
   - posit

Derived forms: postulated, postulates, postulating

Type of: bear on, claim, concern, have to do with, pertain, presuppose, proposition, refer, relate, suppose, touch, touch on

Encyclopedia: Postulate