positing
present participle ofposit
| 单词 | positing |
| 释义 | positing present participle ofposit posit verb[T] formaluk/ˈpɒz.ɪt/us/ˈpɑː.zɪt/tosuggestsomething as abasicfactorprinciplefrom which afurtherideaisformedordeveloped: [+ that]If we positthatwagerisescauseinflation, itfollowsthat we shouldtrytominimizethem. Suggestions & proposals
Examplesofpositingpositing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. One might suspect that any theorypositingsuch overdetermination fails to vindicate mental causation, since mental causes continue to appear in some sense redundant. From theCambridge English Corpus The direct appeal to semantics does not necessitatepositingseparate production and comprehension grammars. From theCambridge English Corpus Daydreaming often reflects our attempts at exploring the future through trial actions or throughpositinga variety of alternatives. From theCambridge English Corpus Someone may wonder whether such acknowledgment is straightforwardly compatible with thepositingof discontinuities. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps each of these questions can ultimately be answered, but certainly merelypositinga natural duty to support justice will not suffice. From theCambridge English Corpus Further,positingmore complex goals has the potential to hurt the resulting arguments. From theCambridge English Corpus However, it would seem thatpositingknowledge of what is preferred implies that speakers take account of "something" in addition to the immediate context. From theCambridge English Corpus For ad hoc explanations are those lacking independent motivation, and there can be motivations forpositinga proposition other than tradition. From theCambridge English Corpus Nevertheless, one case in whichpositingan unpronounced vocalic position in the representation seems reasonable is that of vowel epenthesis or syncope. From theCambridge English Corpus Here, too, he does not attain to ideal "re-presentification" - to thepositingof something not presently given as present. From theCambridge English Corpus Its advantage is that it avoidspositinglexical ambiguity for numerals and scalars. From theCambridge English Corpus Advocates of "environmental determinism" viewed the interaction "in reverse,"positingthat the environment limits human cultural development. From theCambridge English Corpus However,positingtwo base orders is not a standard assumption in derivational frameworks. From theCambridge English Corpus Typically, organismic theories in psychology account for this developmental trajectory bypositinga broad construct that describes a general function subserving growth and integration. From theCambridge English Corpus The data are accounted for without thepositingof rule-fitting patterns of behavior (allegedly required to constrain novel data). From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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