Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To assume or put forward, as for consideration or the basis of argument.
- transitive verb To place firmly in position.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dispose, range, or place in relation to other objects.
- To lay down as a position or principle; assume as real or conceded; present as a fact; affirm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.
- transitive verb (Logic) To assume as real or conceded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something that is posited; a
postulate . - noun aviation Abbreviation of
position . - verb
Assume the existence of; topostulate . - verb Propose for consideration or study; to
suggest . - verb Put (something somewhere) firmly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
- noun (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning
- verb put (something somewhere) firmly
- verb put before
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yet instead of telling us why the designer MUST have been God, Brayton offers bluster: "I'm not going to engage in the ridiculous fiction that the generic designer they posit is anything other than God."
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The “deep” reason, I would posit, is centered on the great divide in “western” culture that has been manifesting itself time and again over the past thousand years, beginning with the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment, all of which posed some inherent challenge to the dominate Christian-ized order that prevailed throughout the West at the time.
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Comic narrative, I'd posit is based on exaggerating behaviours and reactions to a point where the suspension of disbelief is tested.
Strange Fiction 3 Hal Duncan 2006
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Seixon: You only have to read the Russian newspapers online to see what you posit is not true.
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So, what I'll posit is that the blogosphere actually changes the shape of the Gartner Hype Cycle some what.
The Oscillating Hype Cycle (plus the world’s shabbiest attempt at a graph) « Squash 2006
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Comic narrative, I'd posit is based on exaggerating behaviours and reactions to a point where the suspension of disbelief is tested.
Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006
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So, what I'll posit is that the blogosphere actually changes the shape of the Gartner Hype Cycle some what.
2006 April « Squash 2006
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Bolter and Grusin posit hypermedia — playing multiple media off one another — as a strategy to be used to counteract a too-deep immersion.
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What some analysts posit is the real concern for the United States is Iran’s plan to open its own oil exchange — the Iranian Oil Bourse (IOB) — with the alleged goal of becoming the dominant center of the Middle East’s oil trade.
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Setzen, "to posit," is introduced in De Man's second Nietzsche essay ( "The
Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005
jwjarvis commented on the word posit
The osteopathic philosophy posits that there is a unity between a living organism's anatomy and physiology.
May 26, 2010