Crossword-Solution: POSITED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Posited | imp. & p. p. | of Posit |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| POSITED | anagram | DEPOSIT, DIESPOT, DOPIEST, ITSDOPE, SIDEPOT, TOPSIDE |
We have 11 clues for the answer “POSITED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Made an assumption | 1 answer |
| Put forward as a basis of argument | 1 answer |
| Suggested as an explanation | 1 answer |
| Assumed as a fact | 2 answers |
| Put forth as fact | 2 answers |
| Put forth, as a theory | 2 answers |
| Hypothesized | 2 answers |
| Not yet proven | 4 answers |
| ASSUMED AS FACT | 14 answers |
| Put forward | 20 answers |
| Put forth | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with POSITED (5)
HOCKEY posited the need to think about common methods of text-encoding for a long time to come, because building these large bodies of text is extremely expensive and will only be done once.
Forgetting that he was only a brute, he posited that this was no more than a brute with which he strove to play in the genial comradely way that the Skipper played.
The operation of pangenesis depended on the posited existence of unobservable units that Darwin called “gemmules,” tiny granules that were thrown off by individual cells and then circulated through the body.
From all this it is evident that, in the first place, I cannot reverse the order of succession, and make that which happens precede that upon which it follows; and that, in the second place, if the antecedent state be posited, a certain determinate event inevitably and necessarily follows.
But if this synthesis is a synthesis of apprehension (of the manifold of a given phenomenon), then the order is determined in the object, or to speak more accurately, there is therein an order of successive synthesis which determines an object, and according to which something necessarily precedes, and when this is posited, something else necessarily follows.
Quotes with POSITED (3)
No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which is drawn by free will, becomes most obvious. I may not want that which he wants me to want - and in this precisely I am incommunicabilis. I am, and I must be, independent in my actions. All human relationships are posited on this fact.
Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the essence of knowledge, an 'ideal subject' has generally been posited. The motive for this, whether explicit or tacit, lies in the requirement that philosophy should have the '*a priori*' as its theme, rather than 'empirical facts' as such. There is some justification for this requirement, though it still needs to be grounded ontologically. Yet is this requirement…
Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (but, then again, weather is no longer a natural fact so much as a political-economic effect). In the 1960s and 1970s, radical theory and politics (Laing, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, etc.) coalesced around extreme mental conditions such as schizophrenia, arguing, for instance, that madness was not a natural, but a political, category. But what is needed now is a politicization …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1999–2022).