postulatum

Fourthly, Another "postulatum" is, that men would not use an overzealous speed, upon every small difference, to characterize men

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

In quo cert� quidem instituto ade� nobis ex animo placuit, quod est honest� postulatum, vt non nisi pr鎠tita re, possemus nobis quoquo modo satisfacere.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

If the Council deems any derogation from the common law useful, it ought to send a postulatum to the pope.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

He was a strong supporter of the doctrine of papal infallibility and he drew up a postulatum in which he favoured a definition by implication in preference to an explicit affirmation of the dogma.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

In the Vatican Council, Cardinals Pecci and Sforza presented a postulatum for an explicit condemnation of Ontologism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Should Spain pretend, as has been intimated, that there was a secret article of treaty between the United States and Great Britain, agreeing, if at the close of the war the latter should retain the Floridas, that then the southern boundary of Georgia should be the completion of the 32d degree of latitude, the commissioners may safely deny all knowledge of the fact, and refuse conference on any such postulatum.

Reports and Opinions While Secretary of State 1892

If we believed this, we should deem a very concise enthymene (after having proved that postulatum though) all that it was necessary to construct on the subject.

Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) Henry Rogers 1841

But what must strike every one who reflects as the most surprising thing in Dr. Strauss, is, that with the postulatum with which he sets out, and which he modestly takes for granted as too evident to need proof, he should have thought it worth while to write two bulky volumes of minute criticism on the subject.

Reason and Faith; Their Claims and Conflicts From The Edinburgh Review, October 1849, Volume 90, No. CLXXXII. (Pages 293-356) Henry Rogers 1841

It seems, therefore, too much to take for the basis of a system a postulatum which one-half of mankind will deny.

Miscellany 1784

We must show, moreover, the misconceptions and illusions that intrude into syllogisms, the major proposition of which pure reason has supplied -- a proposition which has perhaps more of the character of a petitio than of a postulatum -- and that proceed from experience upwards to its conditions.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764