Posit
Posit
(Lat. ponere, to put or place) (a) In logic and epistemology, positing is the act of entertaining or asserting a proposition immediately i.e. without recourse to inference. A proposition may be posited either because it is regarded as (1) a self-evident truth or (2) a postulate arbitrarily assumed. The postulational sense of positing is the more common at present. See Postulate.
(b) In idealistic metaphysicspositing, in the philosophy of G. Fichte is the initial act by which the Ego creates itself”The positing of the Ego through itself is therefore, the pure activity of the Ego.” (Fichte, The Science of Knowledge, Trans, by A. F. Kroeger, p. 68.) — L.W.