POSTULATE
- Suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or belief
- (in ecclesiastical law) Nominate or elect (someone) to an ecclesiastical office subject to the sanction of a higher authority
- to assume or claim as true, existent, or necessary [v POSTULATED, POSTULATING, POSTULATES]
- means to assume or claim something such as an idea or theory as true especially for the purposes of starting a discussion.