0 present participle of posit
1 to suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed:
One might suspect that any theory positing such overdetermination fails to vindicate mental causation, since mental causes continue to appear in some sense redundant.
The direct appeal to semantics does not necessitate positing separate production and comprehension grammars.
Daydreaming often reflects our attempts at exploring the future through trial actions or through positing a variety of alternatives.
Someone may wonder whether such acknowledgment is straightforwardly compatible with the positing of discontinuities.
Perhaps each of these questions can ultimately be answered, but certainly merely positing a natural duty to support justice will not suffice.
Further, positing more complex goals has the potential to hurt the resulting arguments.
However, it would seem that positing knowledge of what is preferred implies that speakers take account of "something" in addition to the immediate context.
For ad hoc explanations are those lacking independent motivation, and there can be motivations for positing a proposition other than tradition.
