Tenet vs Postulate - What's the difference?
tenet | postulate |
An opinion, belief, or principle held to be true by someone or especially an organization.
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.
As nouns the difference between tenet and postulate
is that tenet is an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true by someone or especially an organization while postulate is something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument.As a verb postulate is
to assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.As an adjective postulate is
postulated.tenet
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(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.
