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Posit   /pˈɑzət/   Listen
Posit

verb
(past & past part. posited; pres. part. positing)
1.
Put (something somewhere) firmly.  Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate.  "Deposit the suitcase on the bench" , "Fix your eyes on this spot"
2.
Put before.  Synonyms: put forward, state, submit.
3.
Take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom.  Synonym: postulate.
noun
1.
(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning.  Synonym: postulate.



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"Posit" Quotes from Famous Books



... had no basis. Judaism did not distinguish between the objective and subjective efficacy of prayer. The two went together. The acceptance of the will of God and the inclining of God's purpose to the desire of man were two sides of one fact. The Rabbinic Judaism did not mechanically posit, however, the objective validity of prayer. On the contrary, the man who prayed expecting an answer was regarded as arrogant and sinful. A famous Talmudic prayer sums up the submissive aspect of the Jew in this brief petition (Berachoth, 29 a): 'Do Thy will in heaven ...
— Judaism • Israel Abrahams

... go—that draws new matter into the vortex and casts the used-up material out—in short, that creates and keeps up the unstable condition, the seesaw upon which life depends? To enable the mind to grasp it we have to invent or posit some principle, call it the vital force, as so many have done and still do, or call it molecular force, as Tyndall does, or the power of God, as our orthodox brethren do, it matters not. We are on the border-land between the knowable and the unknowable, where the mind can take no further ...
— The Breath of Life • John Burroughs



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