Positing Synonyms

Take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pronouncing
  2. asserting
  3. postulating
  4. announcing

Words Related to Positing

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Positing Sentence Examples

  • If the ego be pure activity, free activity, it can only become aware of itself by positing some limit.

  • This construction, or self-determination, is what Fichte called positing (setzen).

  • Hence he united theoretical and practical reason, which Kant had separated, and both with will, which Kant had distinguished; for he held that the Ego, in positing the non-Ego, posits both its own limit and its own means to the end, duty, by its activity of thinking which requires will.

  • The pure ego is inferred from the fact that the non-ego is realized only in the act of the ego in positing it.

  • But within this scheme it unifies existing understanding rather than positing any new specific principles.

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