Posit
verb
To suggest something as a basic fact or principle that people can agree on to start a discussion.
The theory posits that social change can be achieved through awareness and education.
Often appears as...
- posit a theory
- posit an argument
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
verb
To suggest something as a basic fact or principle that people can agree on to start a discussion.
The theory posits that social change can be achieved through awareness and education.
Often appears as...
- posit a theory
- posit an argument
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Starting Point
Use 'posit' when presenting the initial idea that sparks a conversation or argument.
Let's posit that budget is not a constraint and explore all possible solutions.
Pro Tip 2/3Academic Tone
'Posit' is often used in academic or intellectual discussions and has a formal tone.
Researchers posit a link between diet and cognitive function.
Pro Tip 3/3Implicit Acceptance
Positing something implies asking others to accept it temporarily for the sake of argument.
If we posit that the data is accurate, then the conclusion is inescapable.
Compare with
advanceassertclaimcontendpostulatepresumeproposesuggestibility
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The happy secret to...
we want to make sure you leave knowing you have ten, so you keep coming back. We'll go back into your childhood if necessary, but eventually we want to make you normal again. But normal is merely average. And positive psychology posits that if we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average. Then instead of deleting those positive outliers,
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3 creative ways to fix...
And I think to get started, all we have to do is start to design clothes to be recyclable at the end of their life. Now, designing recyclable clothing is definitely something to leave to the professionals. But as a 24-year-old thrift store aficionado armed with a sewing machine, if I were to very humbly posit one perspective,
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Confessions of a...
What I'm really here to do today is talk to you about micromanagement and what I learned about micromanagement by being a micromanager over the last few years of my life. But first off, what is micromanagement? How do we really define it? Well, I posit that it's actually taking great, wonderful, imaginative people --
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Watch the Total Solar...
people didn't really believe at first people thought that gravity was a force like there's a physical force that an attractive force that's pulling and we sometimes talk about it that way in a Newtonian sense in order to understand it a more kind of elementary level but the truth is as I'm xym posited gravity
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Bjorn Lomborg: Global...
It's not about making things that have the most media attention, but it's about making places where we can actually do the most good. The other objections, I think, that are important to say, is that I'm somehow -- or we are somehow -- positing a false choice. Of course, we should do all things,
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The infamous overpopulati...
and related work from the 20th century. Malthus had posited that population growth, if unchecked over time, would always outpace food supply. Through the 1970s, it seemed like Ehrlich was famines, pollution, and political unrest had many concerned that humanity was on the brink of such a crisis,
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The Secret World of...
positing there's no time for sentimentality here and this female will mate with many males and lay many hundreds of eggs in the few short weeks of their outer life a spring moves into early summer a steady stream of coral combatants arrive at the mating floors
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Tim Flannery: Here on...
created and being a holistic thinker his field of endeavor was the entire planet and this book is the foundation stone of the science of astrobiology it compares worlds quite literally and he posits the theory that this planet is the only
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How long should your...
becomes much less active. Meanwhile, the amygdala and cingulate cortex, regions associated with emotion and motivation, are highly active. Researchers have posited that the combination of these things leads to bizarre dreams during REM
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The era of higher ideals...
similar in other countries around the world 30% of people feel engaged passionate energized and bring their whole selves to work again a dreadful number and now shifting to the news story and some posit ISM and optimism
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The happy secret to...
we want to make sure you leave knowing you have ten, so you keep coming back. We'll go back into your childhood if necessary, but eventually we want to make you normal again. But normal is merely average. And positive psychology posits that if we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average. Then instead of deleting those positive outliers,
Video examples
3 creative ways to fix...
And I think to get started, all we have to do is start to design clothes to be recyclable at the end of their life. Now, designing recyclable clothing is definitely something to leave to the professionals. But as a 24-year-old thrift store aficionado armed with a sewing machine, if I were to very humbly posit one perspective,
Video examples
Confessions of a...
What I'm really here to do today is talk to you about micromanagement and what I learned about micromanagement by being a micromanager over the last few years of my life. But first off, what is micromanagement? How do we really define it? Well, I posit that it's actually taking great, wonderful, imaginative people --
Video examples
Watch the Total Solar...
people didn't really believe at first people thought that gravity was a force like there's a physical force that an attractive force that's pulling and we sometimes talk about it that way in a Newtonian sense in order to understand it a more kind of elementary level but the truth is as I'm xym posited gravity
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Bjorn Lomborg: Global...
It's not about making things that have the most media attention, but it's about making places where we can actually do the most good. The other objections, I think, that are important to say, is that I'm somehow -- or we are somehow -- positing a false choice. Of course, we should do all things,
Video examples
The infamous overpopulati...
and related work from the 20th century. Malthus had posited that population growth, if unchecked over time, would always outpace food supply. Through the 1970s, it seemed like Ehrlich was famines, pollution, and political unrest had many concerned that humanity was on the brink of such a crisis,
Video examples
The Secret World of...
positing there's no time for sentimentality here and this female will mate with many males and lay many hundreds of eggs in the few short weeks of their outer life a spring moves into early summer a steady stream of coral combatants arrive at the mating floors
Video examples
Tim Flannery: Here on...
created and being a holistic thinker his field of endeavor was the entire planet and this book is the foundation stone of the science of astrobiology it compares worlds quite literally and he posits the theory that this planet is the only
Video examples
How long should your...
becomes much less active. Meanwhile, the amygdala and cingulate cortex, regions associated with emotion and motivation, are highly active. Researchers have posited that the combination of these things leads to bizarre dreams during REM
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The era of higher ideals...
similar in other countries around the world 30% of people feel engaged passionate energized and bring their whole selves to work again a dreadful number and now shifting to the news story and some posit ISM and optimism
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Eugene Kennedy
American Psychologist
Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.
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Rumaan Alam
American Author
I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.
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Douglas Coupland
Canadian Author
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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Isabella Rossellini
Italian Actress
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.
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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Theologian
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
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Michael Shermer
Writer
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.
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Carrie Brownstein
American Musician
I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to find other people out there with you.
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Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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Dennis Prager
American Journalist
To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.
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Robert Picardo
American Actor
Star Trek' posited a better future.
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Eugene Kennedy
American Psychologist
Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.
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Rumaan Alam
American Author
I always like it when writers posit writing as an act of empathy. It's such a grand turn of phrase, such a noble ideal; empathy is so worth aiming for in life that the same must hold true in art. But personally, I can't think too deeply about that when I'm working, or I'd never get anything down on the page.
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Douglas Coupland
Canadian Author
Storytelling is ultimately a creative act of pattern recognition. Through characters, plot and setting, a writer creates places where previously invisible truths become visible. Or the storyteller posits a series of dots that the reader can connect.
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Isabella Rossellini
Italian Actress
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt you - and Darwin posited that it might be rooted in maternal instinct, in sacrificing yourself for your children.
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Thomas Aquinas
Italian Theologian
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
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Michael Shermer
Writer
The natural inclination in all humans is to posit a force, a spirit, outside of us. That tendency toward superstitious magical thinking is just built into our nature.
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Carrie Brownstein
American Musician
I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to find other people out there with you.
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Rachel Cusk
Canadian Novelist
Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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Dennis Prager
American Journalist
To posit the existence of a Creator requires only reason. To posit the existence of a good God requires faith.
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Robert Picardo
American Actor
Star Trek' posited a better future.
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