posit
verb (formal)- posit something | posit that…
to suggest or accept that something is true so that it can be used as the basis for an argument or discussion synonym postulate假設;認定;認爲…屬實 Most religions posit the existence of life after death. 大多數宗教都假定人死後生命仍存在。 She posits that ideas of gender are socially constructed. 她認爲性别觀念是由社會建構的。 They were forced to modify the political premises on which the regime was posited. 他們被迫改變該政權的政治前提。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPosit is used with these nouns as the object:- existence
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Latin posit- ‘placed’, from the verb ponere.