Positing

Synonyms for "positing" (51 found)

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Closest matches (11)

postulate submit advance apriorism assert assume assumption conceive

Verb(2 words)

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (15)

hypothesize lay lay down moot offer park place pose post postulation predicate premise presume

Noun(1 words)

Verb(1 words)

Related words (25)

presumption presuppose presupposition propose propound put put forth put forward seat set set forth situate station stick suppose supposition thesis

Verb(6 words)

put forward situate state submit suppose surmise

Noun(2 words)

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Let us begin our analysis by positing the following question.

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The poem, as a poem, had little success; but by positing that the Age of Louis was the greatest in history, and suggesting that the moderns were as good as the ancients or better, it started a famous controversy.

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Formulated in this fashion, the phenomenological datum evokes the distinction made earlier between those intendings and positings in which the ego is involved and those in which the ego is not engaged.

Source: wiktionary

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