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"I don't believe in positing all these conditional questions about the future," said Cameron.

David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run Paul Owen 2010

P A Nelson: If one is going to posit divine creation for one primordial cell, there's not a great difference inferentially in positing multiple such origins.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

If one is going to posit divine creation for one primordial cell, there's not a great difference inferentially in positing multiple such origins.

A Disclaimer for Behe? 2009

The irresponsible part was in positing cancer (!) vs. this plan, as if those were the only options available.

Treating Cancer with Landscape Architecture 2008

Rather than positing a morphological realm, an atemporal essentialist (and therefore, to my mind, bogus) "space" where the form of a CHAIR is, was, and ever will be, what I'm positing is a process where you take a horizontal section of the plane and have hundreds, thousands, millions of branch and twig sections which are all manifestations of the CHAIR.

Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

Anyway ... fitting all this into the original three-axes-of-story idea, what I'm positing is a third axis which can be analysed in terms of elements which actively challenge suspension of disbelief, which play with subjunctivity, invoke incredulity:

Archive 2006-09-01 Hal Duncan 2006

Anyway ... fitting all this into the original three-axes-of-story idea, what I'm positing is a third axis which can be analysed in terms of elements which actively challenge suspension of disbelief, which play with subjunctivity, invoke incredulity:

Strange Fiction 9 Hal Duncan 2006

Rather than positing a morphological realm, an atemporal essentialist (and therefore, to my mind, bogus) "space" where the form of a CHAIR is, was, and ever will be, what I'm positing is a process where you take a horizontal section of the plane and have hundreds, thousands, millions of branch and twig sections which are all manifestations of the CHAIR.

On Existence And Eternity Hal Duncan 2006

Jersey Exile, in positing that Iraq is A cause of the London bombing, is like a doctor who confuses a symptom with a disease.

You expected maybe the Donald Rumsfeld fan club? « BuzzMachine 2005

In other news, a rare insightful anonymous comment reveals great amusement in positing Intelligent Faller Theory, an extension of Intelligent Design which posits:

Random Notes From A Tired Weasel partywhipple 2005