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posited

[ poz-i-tid ]

adjective

  1. claimed or assumed as a fact or principle, especially as a basis for argument or further investigation:

    The posited planet, supposed to explain the irregular orbit of Uranus, was later discovered—Neptune.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of posit ( def ).

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Cheri Jacobus, a Republican political consultant, posited that there is something else at play.

A few years later, Baum posited that the math behind tumor growth looked more like chaos theory than anything else.

Under that standard, all of the hypotheticals I posited above are constitutional.

Or as Sen. Lee posited, “Many of you may have been told that this is a lost cause.”

It was first posited that they were Japanese soldiers who had died while crossing the area during World War II.

She could not therefore allow the annihilation of anything which had once been posited within her.

Indeed, it is permissible to doubt whether quantity may be posited as any kind of a genus.

As to the things which are simply posited as attributes, they should, as principles or elements, be classified under relation.

If the interval characteristic of time be made to consist in movement, where shall the duration of rest be posited?

Any object which remains uncontradicted is ipso facto believed and posited as "absolute reality."

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