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Definition of Positing
1. posit [v] - See also: posit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Positing
Literary usage of Positing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hegel's Doctrine of Reflection: Being a Paraphrase and a Commentary by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1881)
"It (reflection) is positing in so far as it is immediateness as a return.
There is, in fact, nothing else extant but the activity of reflection ; neither a ..."
2. The Philosophic Function of Value: A Study of Experience Showin G the by Nathan Blechman (1918)
"Moments of Self-positing Lead to Culture and Religion. The three moments or
aspects of the dichotomy of intelligent evolutionary experience, revealing the ..."
3. The Science of Knowledge by Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Adolph Ernst Kroeger (1868)
"By this conception of substantiality we start, therefore, from an absolute
positing, from a positing of the absolute totality. Hence, the material character ..."
4. The Denotation of Generic Terms in Ancient Indian Philosophy: Grammar, Nyāya by Peter M. Scharf (1996)
"... positing Generic Rejecting the assumption that one word is used for each object
denoted, it is accepted outright that a generic term in the plural has a ..."
5. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1872)
"For let us consider, that here, where imaging lirst begins, we have still the
whole infinite freedom of imaging or absolute positing. ..."
6. Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken (1847)
"The positing and posited act are of one kind ; the latter, however, is the Real,
the Finite; the former the Ideal, the Eternal. Both arc distinguished from ..."
7. Microcosmus: An Essay Concerning Man and His Relation to the World by Hermann Lotze, Elizabeth Hamilton, Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (1885)
"The notion of positing gives us nothing better. It is readily conceded that
something or other must be thought which the positing posits, or the affirmation ..."
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