0 past simple and past participle of posit
1 to suggest something as a basic fact or principle from which a further idea is formed or developed:
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.
His statements do not indicate whether he means ' real ' in an ontological sense or ' real ' as posited by the believer.
These authors reasoned that the separate processing routes posited by dual route theory should be localized in different brain regions.
In this framework, utterances contribute to the specification of interaction structures in that they "posit values or request that values be posited" (132).
One more radical attribute of consciousness may also be posited, as a consequence of operation within this expanded conceptual framework.
Political competition is posited to reduce corruption in two additional ways.
The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
However, the group posited as most desiring of divided government, ideological moderates, should not care about pre-existing partisan control of government.
