(posited, positing)
1
- with obj. assume as a fact; put forward as a basis of argument假设, 假定; 设想：
the Confucian view posits a perfectible human nature
儒家观点认为人性本善
with clause he posited that the world economy is a system with its own particular equilibrium.他设想世界经济是一个有其自身某种平衡的体系。
1.1
posit something on
base something on the truth of (a particular assumption)建立在（假说）上：these plots are posited on a false premise about women's nature as inferior.
这些情节是建立在一个错误的前提之上的, 那就是女人天生下等。
2
- with obj. and adverbial put in position; place安置, 放置：
the Professor posits Cohen in his second category of poets.
这位教授把科恩放在了他的第二类诗人里。
- Philosophy a statement which is made on the assumption that it will prove to be true【哲】假想。
词源
mid 17th cent.: from Latin posit-'placed', from the verb ponere.