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postulate
possibility
  1. The quality of being possible.
  2. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
  3. An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I'm investigating the possibility of running for president.”
      “We then explored the possibility of him making a foolish decision that would doom us all.”
      “Another possibility would be to do nothing altogether.”
possible
  1. A possible one.
  2. (colloquial, rare) A possible choice, notably someone being considered for a position.
  3. (rare) A particular event that may happen.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Jim is a possible for the new opening in marketing.”
possibilist
  1. (philosophy) Someone who advocates possibilism, the position that things do not need to actually exist in order to have properties.
  2. (socialism, historical) A socialist who advocates focusing on small, achievable forms of immediate progress rather than an all-or-nothing commitment to revolution.
  3. Examples:
    1. “These themes are that modal operators are intelligible in their own right and that actualist quantifiers are to be taken as basic with respect to possibilist quantifiers.”
postulator
  1. A person who postulates something as the basis of an argument.
  2. A Roman Catholic official who makes the case for the beatification or canonization of a proposed saint.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He was a Mexican priest who had been appointed vice postulator of the Causes for the Beatification of the two young Fatima visionaries.”
      “The book was edited by the Rev Brian Kolodiejchuk, a priest who knew Mother Teresa for 20 years and is the postulator for her sainthood cause.”
      “In 1997 the organization hired the Rev. Gabriel O'Donnell, a Dominican friar, as postulator of the effort.”
postulation
  1. The act of postulating or something postulated.
  2. (logic) Something self-evident that can be assumed as the basis of an argument.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “But Science has been reluctant to recognise that it is now entitled to dispense with the postulation of Matter.”
      “From this intriguing postulation onward, the film slowly and hesitantly assumes the shape of a thriller.”
      “Thus the postulation of the Deity is not only permissible, it is unavoidable.”
posit
possibilism
  1. (philosophy) The belief that possible things exist.
  2. Examples:
    1. “New actualism is a powerful and elegant solution to the problem of possibilism.”
      “And, depending on one's tolerance for possibilia, this leads either to possibilism or one of its ersatz variations.”
      “According to proponents of model-theoretic actualism, the fallacy of both ersatzism and possibilism is the inference that things must work in largely the same way with regard to Kripke models.”
possibilium
  1. (philosophy) Something that is possible
possibleness
  1. Quality of being possible.
postulatum
  1. Variant of postulate.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The unity or identity of the people of the United States has been taken as a postulatum, without one serious attempt to prove it.”
      “This is his postulatum, his great principle to which every thing is to be accommodated, his lever with which the world is to be moved.”
      “As James Hennesey notes, the sweeping statements of the Postulatum in effect granted the pope unlimited power.”
possibles
  1. plural of possible
  2. The essential personal equipment carried by an American frontiersman
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The draw isn't being made until next Sunday anyway, so it is pointless talking about the possibles until we see who we get.”
      “There are possibles, sure, but it will need athletes to perform at a level well above what they have achieved so far this season.”
      “The other players who were not in the initial tour squad because of injury problems are still possibles for the trip to Australia.”
possibilia
  1. plural of possibilium
possibilisms
  1. plural of possibilism
possibilists
  1. plural of possibilist
postulations
  1. plural of postulation
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This research helps explicate Rogers' later postulations about the nature of presence.”
      “All his optimism failed to thresh a grain of hope from the chaff of his postulations.”
      “Contrary to the postulations of the Church, it is becoming increasingly clear that aggression is not innate in man.”
possibilities
  1. plural of possibility
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Which of all the uneliminated alternative possibilities may not properly be ignored?”
      “Those were theoretical or abstract possibilities not applying to this case.”
      “The older will always be more articulate and more abundant in possibilities than the younger.”
postulata
  1. plural of postulatum
postulators
  1. plural of postulator
postulates
posits
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