Postulate
Postulate noun - Something taken as being true or factual and used as a starting point for a course of action or reasoning.
Usage example: one of the postulates that the true agnostic rejects is the assumption that it is even possible for us to know whether God exists
Rule and postulate are semantically related in activity topic. In some cases you can use "Rule" instead the word "Postulate" as a noun or a verb.
Both words in one sentence
- The rules of the WW 3 postulate that the only rule is that when the Earth is destroyed by some cataclysmic event, the universe where Earth survives is the home universe, and play resumes on that universe.
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