0 to suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed:
However, there is a sharp distinction between the mechanisms posited by repression and the processes thought to underlie ordinary forgetting.
He posited four basic plans of organization in the animal kingdom - vertebrate, articulate, mollusk, and radiate - with no transitions between plans.
To be consistent with our own viewpoint, we have then to posit that early visual processing involves neither representation nor computation.
The rules of the language, including the words, are posited to be precisely what the processing system uses in constructing mappings between sound and meaning.
These authors reasoned that the separate processing routes posited by dual route theory should be localized in different brain regions.
So he is compelled to posit that embedding came along at an evolutionarily later period.
It constitutes a precedent, and to posit a similar movement in other forms of seasonality cannot be dismissed as unreasonable.
In this framework, utterances contribute to the specification of interaction structures in that they "posit values or request that values be posited" (132).
