- Claim pompously - Put forward - speculate - Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position
or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as
self-evident; a truth to which assent may be demanded or challenged,
without argument or evidence. - The enunciation of a self-evident problem, in
distinction from an axiom, which is the enunciation of a self-evident
theorem. - Postulated. - To beg, or assume without proof; as, to postulate
conclusions.