Sentence examples for it posits as from inspiring English sources

By reenacting the appalling excesses of what we would call biblical violence in the modern world, it has issued us an invitation, a chance to return to what it posits as the basic moral condition governing all men.

The gendered component of this event became clear last year, when, as Emily Nussbaum noted in her review of "Full Frontal," Vanity Fair celebrated what it posited as a late-night renaissance by publishing a cover of ten male hosts in dark suits drinking bourbon.

Avicenna also posits, as had Aristotle originally, the existence of an intermediate stage of potentiality, calling it an "intellect in habitu" (al-'aql bi'l-malakah).

Lewis's first objection is that it positing clouds as well as cloud-constituting fusions of atoms is metaphysically extravagant.

The I must posit itself in order to be an I at all; but it can posit itself only insofar as it posits itself as limited (and hence divided against itself, inasmuch as it also posits itself as unlimited or "absolute").

Traditional gender ideologies have contributed to the double burden because it posits women as caretakers, men as providers, and each gender occupying their own sphere of influence.

Physiological mechanisms including metabolic disturbance have been posited as plausible explanations for these observed associations [ 3].

As Fichte states in The Science of Ethics as Based on the Science of Knowledge (1794), "That whose being (essence) consists merely in the fact that it posits itself as existent is the ego as absolute subject.

It posits him as the anti-John Newman: it almost exults in despair.

It posits America as the world's future whether the world wants it or not.

Middle age, the film suggests, inspires industrial-strength compromise; slyly undermining the notion of maturity, it posits adults as lunatic children trapped in aging bodies.