Lexic.us

Definition of Posit

1. Noun. (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning.

2. Verb. Put (something somewhere) firmly. "Fix your eyes on this spot"

3. Verb. Put before. "They posit that there was a traffic accident "; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"

4. Verb. Take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom. "He posited three basic laws of nature"

Definition of Posit

1. v. t. To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.

Definition of Posit

1. Noun. Something that is posited; a postulate. ¹

2. Noun. (context: aviation) (abbreviation of position) ¹

3. Verb. Assume the existence of; to postulate. ¹

4. Verb. Propose for consideration or study; to suggest. ¹

5. Verb. Put (something somewhere) firmly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Posit

1. to place [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: place

Lexicographical Neighbors of Posit

poshteen poshteens posied posier posies posiest posilutely posing posingly posings

posintang posishes posistor posistors posit (current term) posited positing position position argument position effect

position paper position papers positionable positional positional isomer positional isomers positional notation positional representation system positionally

Literary usage of Posit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Screening and Assessing Adolescents for Substance Use Disorders: A Treatment by Ken C. Winters, Ken C. Winters, Ph.d. (2000)
"posit was designed to identify problems and potential treatment or service ... Related is the posit followup questionnaire that was derived from items on ..."

2. Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order: And Divided Into Five Parts, which by Benedictus de Spinoza (1883)
"Pmt the imagination is assisted by those things which posit the existence ... Therefore the images of things which posit the existence of the beloved object ..."

3. The English Language: A Brief History of Its Grammatical Changes and Its by Brainerd Kellogg, Alonzo Reed (1891)
"The com +pon + ent parts; an ap+posit(e) remark; nouns in the same case by ap + posit + ion ; de + com + posit + ion of rocks; his ex + posit + ion of the ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"According to him, ethics, as a division of esthetics, is to posit the simplest relations which, as being morally beautiful, evoke pleasure, ..."

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