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Example sentences for: positing

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It is only through their written forms that we know anything at all about certain languages, and the written forms of others serve to confirm the findings of diachronic linguistics in positing the pronunciation and sources of long-dead tongues.
So Gould, without conspicuously positing a simplistic dichotomy, has posited a simplistic dichotomy: Every behavior--infidelity, genocide, whatever--is either a mere "capacity" or an "inevitability."
The problem with that one is that once you allow yourself to start positing "tastes" for everything under the sun, you abandon all intellectual discipline--any behavior at all can be "explained" by the assertion that somebody had a taste for it.
Turgidly written and dense with 534 footnotes and seven appendixes, Ruddy's plodding book repeatedly confuses the evidence and chases after scores of imaginary holes in the official verdict--without ever positing an alternative scenario that makes the least bit of sense.
As long as you're positing an evolutionary urge with no present-day benefits, why assume the most complicated explanation is correct?