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A truth you demand the reader grant, so the real argument can begin.
means To assume or claim something as true without proof, treating it as a starting point for reasoning.
from From Latin postulare, to demand or request — a postulate is literally an intellectual ask, money fronted before the math pays off.
Euclid's habitHis geometry rests on five unproven postulates.
Fifth wheelThe parallel postulate spawned entire non-Euclidean geometries.
Verb tooScientists postulate particles before instruments ever find them.