underlying postulate

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• Accounting Postulate — A fundamental assumption in the field of accounting. Like any field, the present system of accounting has certain underlying axioms which form the basis of the all further work. Accounting postulates are generally very well agreed upon and form… …   Investment dictionary

• pos´tu|la´tion — pos|tu|late «noun. POS chuh liht; verb. POS chuh layt», noun, verb, lat|ed, lat|ing. –n. something taken for granted or assumed as a basis for reasoning; fundamental principle; necessary condition: »One postulate in geometry is that a straight… …   Useful english dictionary

• pos|tu|late — «noun. POS chuh liht; verb. POS chuh layt», noun, verb, lat|ed, lat|ing. –n. something taken for granted or assumed as a basis for reasoning; fundamental principle; necessary condition: »One postulate in geometry is that a straight line is the… …   Useful english dictionary

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• Axiom — This article is about logical propositions. For other uses, see Axiom (disambiguation). In traditional logic, an axiom or postulate is a proposition that is not proven or demonstrated but considered either to be self evident or to define and… …   Wikipedia

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