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Crossword-Solution: POSIT 5 letters, 120 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Posit v. t. To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose
in relation to other objects.
Posit v. t. To assume as real or conceded; as, to posit a principle.

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POSIT anagram ISTOP, PITOS, TOPIS

We have 120 clues for the answer “POSIT”

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Affirm, in logic. 1 answer
Assume as a fact 1 answer
Assume as a fact or principle 1 answer
Assume as fact 1 answer
Assume as true 1 answer
Assume for argument's sake 1 answer
Assume for the sake of argument 1 answer
Assume or presume 1 answer
Assume the existence of 1 answer
Assume to be a fact 1 answer
Assume to be factual 1 answer
Assume to be true 1 answer
Assume true 1 answer
Declare as beyond doubt. 1 answer
Lay down as fact 1 answer
Offer as explanation 1 answer
PLACE in relation 1 answer
Present, as an idea 1 answer
Presume or assume 1 answer
Propose as an Explanation 1 answer
Propose as fact 1 answer
Propose, as a theory 1 answer
Put forth a theory 1 answer
Put forth, as a fact 1 answer
Put forth, as a hypothesis 1 answer
Put forward an opinion 1 answer
Put forward as a basis for argument 1 answer
Put forward as a theory 1 answer
Put forward for study 1 answer
Put philosophically 1 answer
Say is true 1 answer
Set down as fact 1 answer
Set fixedly. 1 answer
Set forth as true 1 answer
Suggest for consideration 1 answer
Suggest, as a theory 1 answer
Suppose for argument's sake 1 answer
Take for a given 1 answer
To set fixedly. 1 answer
lay down as a basis for argument 1 answer
Advance (an idea) 1 answer
Assert as a fact 2 answers
Assume without proof 2 answers
firmly set LAY PUT GROUP PLACE 2 answers
set LAY PUT GROUP PLACE firmly 2 answers
Put forward, as an explanation 2 answers
Put forward, as an idea 2 answers
Put forth as fact 2 answers
Put forth, as a theory 2 answers
Take as a given 3 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POSIT (5)

The "coming near" is a figure of speech, an adaptation to our ideas of time and space, for we cannot posit "nearness" of that which is timeless and spaceless--Spirit.
An Introduction to Yoga Annie Besant 2002
Now, if I take the subject (God) with all its predicates (omnipotence being one), and say: God is, or, There is a God, I add no new predicate to the conception of God, I merely posit or affirm the existence of the subject with all its predicates—I posit the object in relation to my conception.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 2003
For although we posit a thing corresponding to the idea—a something, an actual existence—we do not on that account aim at the extension of our cognition by means of transcendent conceptions.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 2003
For if an idea (that of a systematic and complete unity, of which I shall presently speak more particularly) lies at the foundation of the most extended empirical employment of reason, and if this idea cannot be adequately represented in concreto, although it is indispensably necessary for the approximation of empirical unity to the highest possible degree—I am not only authorized, but compelled, to realize this idea, that is, to posit a real object corresponding thereto.
The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 2003
The question is ultimately whether we really recognize the will as OPERATING, whether we believe in the causality of the will; if we do so--and fundamentally our belief IN THIS is just our belief in causality itself--we MUST make the attempt to posit hypothetically the causality of the will as the only causality.
Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche 2003

Quotes with POSIT (3)

Spinoza formulated the profoundly important principle that *all determination is negation*. To determine a thing is to cut it off from some sphere of being and so to limit it. To define is to set boundaries. To say that a thing is green limits it by cutting it from the sphere of pink, blue, or other-coloured things. To say that it is good cuts it off from the sphere of evil. This limitation is the same as negation. To *affirm* that a thing is within certain limits is to *deny…
W.T. Stace
The wise men posit questions to which they may not always find immediate answers, but through their reflections God stimulates man in his search for truth - which in the last analysis is a search for God himself.
University of Navarra The Navarre Bible: Wisdom Books
Many contemporary critics of higher education similarly posit a Golden Age but no one knows when it was supposed to exist.
Mark C. Carnes Minds on Fire: How Role-Immersion Games Transform College
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 257 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).