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Posit v. t. (past & past part. posited; pres. part. positing)

To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

(Logic) To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle.

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Etymology of 'Posit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Posit" Quotes from Famous Books

... check which the Renaissance received through the Reformation in relation to art had its good as well as its evil side. Intense scorn arose in the Protestant world for every kind of image and decoration, because these were supposed to posit life on what was purely sensuous and natural, and so bar the way to the Divine. Still, the obstruction [p.120] created by Protestantism in this direction opened a door in quite another direction. Art of a higher kind ...

— An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy • W. Tudor Jones

... cage, all a-settin' cryin' on their boxes outside here all day long since half an hour after you left, a-waitin' for you to come back and go out of this 'ouse and let 'em come in. They say they took it from August 14 for a month, and paid a dee-posit, and they was to come in to-day. And the kitching fire was to ...

— The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 • Various

Words linked to "Posit" : set, put forward, advise, premiss, logic, state, insist, assumption, lay, position, deposit, postulate, premise, fix, pose, place, sediment, propose, presuppose, submit, assert, suppose, bury, Bayes' postulate, proposition