Example sentences for: posits

How can you use “posits” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Ultimately, anti-meliorism posits a static vision of human nature to which the anti-meliorists mandate we reconcile ourselves.

  • This all-purpose Republican frame posits that the Senate is Clinton's jury and should behave accordingly.

  • In an attempt to distinguish those public purposes that are tolerable from those that aren't, Murray posits that, to be valid, public goods either have to be "nonexclusive"--interventions from which everyone benefits--or else must arise to counter "externalities," costs passed on to others that, in practical terms, cannot be compensated, as in the case of the chemical incinerator that pollutes the air.

  • He posits a society of ordinary Germans bred, like attack dogs, to despise Jews, and unleashed by a regime that shared their bloodlust.

  • Publicized by newspapers last week, the report posits a right-wing media conspiracy to spread, well, conspiracy theories.


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