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positing


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Posit  \Pos"it\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Posited};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Positing}.]  [L.  ponere  positum  to  place  See  {Position}.] 
  1.  To  dispose  or  set  firmly  or  fixedly;  to  place  or  dispose 
  in  relation  to  other  objects.  --Sir  M.  Hale. 
 
  2.  (Logic)  To  assume  as  real  or  conceded;  as  to  posit  a 
  principle.  --Sir  W.  Hamilton. 




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