posit

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  1. transitive verb To assume the existence of; postulate. See Synonyms at presume.
  2. transitive verb To put forward, as for consideration or study; suggest: "If a book is hard going, it ought to be good. If it posits a complex moral situation, it ought to be even better” (Anthony Burgess).
  3. transitive verb To place firmly in position.

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  • If you truly work in "health care", and not in some private place,. you know that the situation you posit is bullshit. —  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
  • In a similar way, McKanan went on to posit, it is easier to transform an imperialist into a practitioner of global solidarity than it is to effect such a change in someone who is a realist or isolationist. —  UUpdates - All updates
  • Nor did Belle set out to posit prostitution or promiscuity as some unique form of female emancipation. —  Home | Mail Online
  • I wouldn't for a minute posit that my old friends of the pre-1974 newsroom were a superior class of news-gatherers and communicators. —  The American Spectator
  • Entirely as a thumbnail (and, not coincidentally as a post, a placeholder), and partially as a codicil to what I was trying to get at here, let's posit this distinction between "ethics" and "morality." —  Adventus
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. From Latin positus, past participle of pōnere, to place; see position.

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  1. from Latin positus, past participle of ponere, place: see position.
 

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