postulate

maintain or assert

• “He contended that Communism had no future”

take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom

• “He posited three basic laws of nature”

require as useful, just, or proper

• “It takes nerve to do what she did”
• “success usually requires hard work”
• “This job asks a lot of patience and skill”
• “This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice”
• “This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert”
• “This intervention does not postulate a patient”

(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning