Postulate vs Corollary - What's the difference?
postulate | corollary |
Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument.
A fundamental element; a basic principle.
(logic) An axiom.
A requirement; a prerequisite.
To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
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* 1911 , Encyclopædia Britannica , "",
(ambitransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
* 1874 , John Small (ed.), The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld , Vol 1,
(ambitransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.
Something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.
Something which occurs a fortiori , as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.
(mathematics, logic) A proposition which follows easily from the proof of another proposition.
As nouns the difference between postulate and corollary
is that postulate is while corollary is something given beyond what is actually due; something added or superfluous.postulate
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(wikipedia postulate)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(postulat)- But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause;
- [T]he attempt to arrive at a physical explanation of existence led the Ionian thinkers to postulate various primal elements or simply the infinite ?? ???????.
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- [A]lthough Douglas was postulated to it [the Abbacy of Arbroath], and signed letters and papers under this designation his nomination was never completed.
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(corollaries)- Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefont.
- We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary , we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.