posit

Object

• existence: Christianity posits the existence of a personal god who takes an interest in humanity.
• notion: The very word ' view ' posits the notion of an intelligent entity to hold a view.
• explanation: Evolutionary theory, by contrast, posits explanations that are internal to the world it is explaining: it relies wholly on natural explanations.
• theory: I posited this theory on Tuesday's Steve Wright Show on BBC Radio 2. Catch up guys.
• idea: Reid believed that there was no reason to posit ideas that we perceive immediately.
• relationship: All attempts at intellectual understanding posits relationships between ' things ' .

Preposition: that

• immigrant: Posits that immigrants with probable mental on the public.
• change: All the standard interpretations of quantum theory posit that the cosmos changes in accordance with causal principles that are stochastic or probabilistic.

Adjective modifier

theoretical: We can consequently treat rationality as a theoretical posit, much like electrons, viruses and the other theoretical posits of science.

Modifies a noun

part: The posit part of the process streams stage commences by attempting to open the input stream.

Modifying Another Word

• then: Controversially, he even then posited that the OAI-PMH is not actually important!
• only: In fact I was positing only that the mind is a complex system with specialized parts, much like the body.
• also: She also posits a connection with witch rites on nearby Cadbury Hill.
• first: It was in fact Alison who had first posited the possibility of a duplicitous Adele in her eviction interview.
• not: Unlike Guided Evolution, it does not posit control over the path that Creation took.
• instead: Skolimowski instead posits the duality of body and thought manifested through differing forms.

Noun used with modifier

• quantum: All the standard interpretations of quantum theory posit that the cosmos changes in accordance with causal principles that are stochastic or probabilistic.
• theory: All the standard interpretations of quantum theory posit that the cosmos changes in accordance with causal principles that are stochastic or probabilistic.

Preposition: in

house: Note how I leave out the fact that Saturn is posited in the house of self undoing.

Preposition: of

psychology: Earlier we saw that eliminative materialism is committed to the claim that the posits of folk psychology fail to refer to anything.