Usually means: Assuming or asserting something as true.
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  1. positing: Merriam-Webster
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  9. Positing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Positing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
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  1. positing: Legal dictionary
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  1. positing: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (positing)

▸ noun:  (philosophy) The process by which one posits.

Similar:
postulate, situate, pose, fix, deposit, positor, poising, postpositional, postulator, postulatum, more...

Phrases:
self positing, positing on, more...

Adjectives:
absolute, such, mere, own, self, original, simple, actual, free, general, initial

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Similar:
postulate, situate, pose, fix, deposit, positor, poising, postpositional, postulator, postulatum, more...

Phrases:
self positing, positing on, more...

Adjectives:
absolute, such, mere, own, self, original, simple, actual, free, general, initial



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