posit Definition
posit (päz′it)
transitive verb
- to set in place or position; situate
- to set down or assume as fact; postulate
Etymology: < L positus: see position
posit Synonyms
posit
v.
posit Usage Examples
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.

