Postulate vs Opinion - What's the difference?
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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.
* 1883 , , Prop. XXII,
* 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.
A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
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(obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
* 1597 , , V. iv. 47:
* Milton
(obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
* 1590 , , V. i. 5:
The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.
(European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible
(archaic) To have or express as an opinion.
* 1658', But if (as some '''opinion ) King ''Ahasuerus'' were ''Artaxerxes Mnemon'' [...], our magnified ''Cyrus'' was his second Brother — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Graden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 166)
Postulate is a related term of opinion.
As nouns the difference between postulate and opinion
is that postulate is while opinion is opinion.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.
opinion
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Noun
(en noun)- I would like to know your opinions on the new systems.
- In my opinion , white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
- Every man is a fool in some man's opinion .
- Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -
- I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.
- Friendship gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
- Thou hast redeemed thy lost opinion .
- This gained Agricola much opinion , who enterprises.
- Your reasons at / dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant / without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious / without impudency, learned without opinion , and / strange without heresy.