While the lake is the largest man-made lake around, some say it is not the state's largest lake, because some of it is in Ohio. The dam that formed the lake on the Shenango River was completed in 1934. The largest man-made lake built by the Army Corps of Engineers in Pennsylvania is Raystown Lake.
postulate (plural postulates) 1  Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. 2  A fundamental element; a basic principle. ( 3 logic) An axiom. 4  A requirement; a prerequisite.
Postmodernism. A general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others.Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality.ostmodernism is post because it is denies the existence of any ultimate principles, and it lacks the optimism of there being a scientific, philosophical, or religious truth which will explain everything for everybody-a characterisitic of the so-called modern mind.