Aquinas treats all human law as "posited" and (synonymously) "positive", even those of its rules that are restatements of, or authoritatively promulgated deductions (conclusiones) from, general moral principles or norms.
In earlier work, the ratio of the folding temperature over the glass-transition temperature was related to a statistical measure of protein energy landscapes denoted as the foldability F. It was posited and subsequently established by simulation that good folders had larger foldabilities, on average, than bad folders.
Our findings clearly point to this posited and evident increase in distractibility.
Bill Clinton and his political partner, Hillary, were not passive observers of an ideological attack that posited crime and punishment over government assistance and public welfare; they, in the 1990s context, were its architects.
The move from Locke's positing a special feeling to Feldman's positing a special attitude thus does not obviously help with the unity problem for pleasure it is supposed to solve; similar doubts may be raised in the two cases both about the posited entities' unity and about how we can know it to obtain.
Two days ago, the EMA released a study that dissected BlackBerry's corporate userbase, and posited that enterprise and small business users would soon be leaving the platform in droves.
Scientific theory, systematic ideational structure of broad scope, conceived by the human imagination, that encompasses a family of empirical (experiential) laws regarding regularities existing in objects and events, both observed and posited.
"Who's to say what's offensive?," posited journalist and long-time Google watcher Jeff Jarvis.
For a long time I have been struck by this posited odour and have spent a lot of time sniffing.
Hans Werner Henze, who met the composer at the second Darmstadt Summer School in 1947, wrote that Hartmann viewed music as "a specifically human means of expression that posited moral and political commitment".
Especially in the wake of Sept. 11, television has been loath to stereotype Muslim characters as extremists: "Sleeper Cell," a Showtime series, posited American and European converts to Islamic extremism.
