"posit a hypothesis" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are proposing a tentative explanation that can be tested through further observation or experimentation. For example, "We posit the hypothesis that a decrease in air pollution leads to a healthier population."
In this paper Valiant introduced the "probably approximately correct" (PAC) model, in which an algorithm posits a hypothesis based on some data set and applies that hypothesis to future data.
Paik et al. [22] posit a similar hypothesis regarding physicians' perception of malpractice risk.
This last point is quite exciting as it allows them to posit a striking hypothesis that the role of the Alu domain is to sense the state translation state of the ribosome, which may be sensitive to hydrophobic stretches in the nascent chain.
Rather, it strikes us as more reasonable to posit an inclusive hypothesis whereby nonconsciously deployed cognitive processes are, by default, flexible enough to be applied over both central and peripheral representations.
It has also been suggested that if one invokes some underlying statistical dynamic law (such as the GRW law noted above), one need not posit a branch system hypothesis in addition to initial low entropy to derive the thermodynamic results.
But largely, the 68 genomes corroborate a hypothesis positing that the holometabolan orders emerged during a (relatively) brief period of ancient rapid radiation.
Therefore, we posit that: Hypothesis 4a Entrepreneurial strategy significantly mediates the relationship between IEC and firm performance.
In place of the tradition that individual incorporeal souls push the planets and instead of Copernicus's passive, resting Sun, Kepler posited the hypothesis that a single force from the Sun accounts for the increasingly long periods of motion as the planetary distances increase.
The authors of the MTHP framework posited a series of hypotheses about how practice models differ based on the four key constructs of the framework.
However, as several researchers have recently pointed out, it is also consistent with other hypotheses, for instance with the consensus-effects hypothesis positing a reverse causality relationship (from preferences and behavior to beliefs).
