posit in the PONS Dictionary

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She also argues, against a familiar view, that the theory of recollection doesn't posit innate knowledge (or true beliefs or concepts), but only prenatal knowledge.
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In terms of the cause of the rebellion, he posited political factors rather than economic ones.
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Their model posits that dreams are actively generated by the brain stem and then passively synthesized by the forebrain.
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Three factors were posited to influence residential fires.
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He posited several analogies between machines and the human body.
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She posits core religious values of community and self-sacrifice as important to eco-pagan movements, as well as the broader environmental justice movement.
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Hard incompatibilism posits that indeterminism is also incompatible with free will, and thus either way free will is not possible.
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They tend to (posit one or more levels of syntactic structure that) abstract away from linear order and acknowledge hierarchical order alone.
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The drink was posited to have an effect of purification, and those who consumed it often vomited immediately.
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In addition to these four basic content words, he also posited two types of function words, "indices" and "translatives".
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