Take as a given

Usage examples of posit.

February, positing ways to make the tax cut more stimulative by accelerating the rate cuts or altering tax-withholding tables retroactively to January 1 in 2001.

He posits, for instance, an atmosphere composed mostly of an enomagnetized, digammated, attenuated form of oxygen.

And even if we could throw it into reverse, all the currently accepted theories of time distortion posit an infinitely variform multiverse rather than a single linear universe .

The Physiocrats allow themselves to posit only the material reality of goods, which means that the formation of value in exchange becomes a process costly in itself and must be debited against existing goods.

This indeed is why we posit that which transcends Being, since Being and Substance cannot but be a plurality, necessarily comprising the genera enumerated and therefore forming a one-and-many.

As for the remaining so-called genera, we have shown that they are reducible to those which we have posited.

But if not only the things enumerated are in some one genus, but also the propositions and terms in question must be each of them significative of some genus, then we shall assert that negative propositions and terms posit certain things within a restricted field and deny others.

All consciousness involves temporality for Sartre, for it is always directed toward a future and posited against the background of a past.

The femme self of the adult CD can arguably be seen as the transvestic analogue of an adult relationship with a woman--the logic being that just as the juvenile CD became his mother, the adult CD posits a feminine self to whom he can relate emotionally and sexually.

Instead, von Schwein posits that kinky technology ended the Atlantian Empire.

Andy, upon receiving his summons, had felt himself chosen, not unlike one of the ancient kings of Calicut who had their throats cut after enjoying a brief, prescribed term of reign, although here Andy, as a student of the human condition, posited too darkly what William may or may not have had in mind.

By positing the point as the unit from which to start, and deriving our conception of the plane from the point, we constitute Euclidean space.

All intellectualistic thinking about politics posits a certain great non-existent characteristic of human nature.

But this content is indicated only in a representation that posits itself as such, and that which is signified resides, without residuum and without opacity, within the representation of the sign.

The prepositional form posits as a condition of language the affirmation of a relation of identity or difference: we can speak only in so far as this relation is possible.