Posit – meaning, usage, quotes, and social examples

The word of the day is ‘posit’.

The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.

Yes, the past form of the word is posited.

It means:
1. Suppose
2. Put forward as fact or as a basis for argument
3. Put in position or place.
4. Pose

1. It is scientifically inadmissible to posit a “religious faculty” organically ear-marked for religious use.
2. The Confucian view posits a perfectible human nature
3. There was no way to wound her so deeply as to posit its reality and identify it with her.
4. Professor posits Cohen in his second category of poets.
5. Let me posit here the ideal conditions for a morning pipe as I know them.

Some synonyms of today’s word are:
hypothesize, postulate, presuppose, assume, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, deem, dream, expect, fancy, feel, gather, imagine, judge, premise, presume, pretend, reckon, regard, suspect, take, think, understand, view, be afraid, have a hunch, have sneaking suspicion, swear by, take as gospel truth, take stock in, put forward, advance, propound, submit, predicate, set forth, propose, pose, assert, presuppose, presume etc.

abstain, be honest, disbelieve, disregard, forget, ignore, know, leave, misunderstand, neglect, not believe, reject