posit
IPA: pˈɑzʌt
noun
- Something that is posited; a postulate.
- (aviation) Abbreviation of position. [A place or location.]
verb
- Assume the existence of; to postulate.
- Propose for consideration or study; to suggest.
- Put (something somewhere) firmly; to place or position.
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Examples of "posit" in Sentences
- Setzen, "to posit," is introduced in De Man's second Nietzsche essay ( "The
- Seixon: You only have to read the Russian newspapers online to see what you posit is not true.
- So, what I'll posit is that the blogosphere actually changes the shape of the Gartner Hype Cycle some what.
- Comic narrative, I'd posit is based on exaggerating behaviours and reactions to a point where the suspension of disbelief is tested.
- Bolter and Grusin posit hypermedia — playing multiple media off one another — as a strategy to be used to counteract a too-deep immersion.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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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