verb
definition
Assume the existence of; to postulate.
definition
Propose for consideration or study; to suggest.
definition
Put (something somewhere) firmly; to place or position.
Examples of posited in a Sentence
But in consciousness there is equally given a primitive act of op-positing, or contra-positing, formally distinct from the act of position, but materially determined, in so far as what is op-posited must be the negative of that which was posited.
Only the ego is real, but the non-ego is posited in the ego.
Legal rules are then instrumental to the achievement of the posited goal; call this approach rule instrumentalism.
It was in fact Alison who had first posited the possibility of a duplicitous Adele in her eviction interview.
The reasons for this are not simple to understand but they could be posited as being primarily twofold.
Stories that speculate on the effects on society of inventions appearing before their time (such as The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, that posited computers in the Victorian era) are certainly science fiction.
Controversially, he even then posited that the OAI-PMH is not actually important!
One of the posited hindrances to the original iPhone's success was its lofty price.
There are certain conventions that can be posited and then ignored.
Not only human beings but animals and objects are seen in dreams; and the conclusion would be that they too have souls; the same conclusion may have been reached by another line of argument; primitive psychology posited a spirit in a man to account, amongst other things, for his actions; a natural explanation of the changes in the external world would be that they are due to the operations and volitions of spirits.
It is a speech-andthought-form (Xoyos) in which certain matters being posited something other than the matters posited necessarily results because of them, and, though it still needs to receive a deeper meaning when presumed truth gives way to necessary truth of premises, the notion of the class to that of the class-concept, collective fact to universal law, its formal claim is manifest.
The two positions are to be conciliated in the thought of reciprocal limitation of the posited ego and non-ego.
But when is a thing thus posited?
So when we ask, What is the one posited?
It follows from them that the relation of a real ground to that which is thereby posited or denied cannot be expressed by a judgment but only by means of a notion, which by analysis may certainly be reduced to yet simpler notions of real grounds, but yet in such a way that the final resort of all our cognition in this regard must be found in simple and irreducible notions of real grounds, the relation of which to their consequents cannot be made clear."
She counted out lots corresponding to the posited fraction denominator.
Note how I leave out the fact that Saturn is posited in the house of self undoing.
When it is posited as we are wont to posit the things we see and taste and handle.