posit
to place, put, or set.
to lay down or assume as a fact or principle; postulate.
something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.
Origin of posit
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How to use posit in a sentence
To posit that the war brings us closer to faith is a sleight of hand that makes fools of us all.
Simbikangwa denies any involvement and his lawyers posit their client was unaware of the massacre taking place.
We have to erase history and posit a Palestinian people that is, somehow, essentially different from other people.
Advocates of intervention may want to posit the U.S. as the world's police.
What Israel's Attack Doesn't Mean For American Intervention In Syria | Ali Gharib | May 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYou posit that talking about the aesthetics of scent in traditional aesthetic terms makes scent subservient to other disciplines.
Nos duo Societate tuguriolum habemus ligneum, in quo vix posit mens commouere nos possumus.
We must posit these three genera (essence, movement, and stability) because intelligence thinks each of them separately.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)Ibn Daud does not make use of creation to prove the existence of God, but neither does he posit eternal motion as Aristotle does.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac HusikTo posit nature by thought is to posit something irreducible to thought and therefore unthinkable.
The Reform of Education | Giovanni GentileThey say they took it from August 14 for a month, and paid a dee-posit, and they was to come in to-day.
British Dictionary definitions for posit
/ (ˈpɒzɪt) /
to assume or put forward as fact or the factual basis for an argument; postulate
to put in position
a fact, idea, etc, that is posited; assumption
Origin of posit
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