Instead, they posited a dramatic situation subjected to a series of theatrical variations.
The initial situation posits what in bargaining theory is called the "no agreement position," the situation to which the individuals return in case of failure to make an agreement or contract.
Ridley Scott took a bit of poetic license and posited that in that situation, the only way Noah could build his ark was to supply him with new forests, since all others had been cut down.
(The fictionalized situation posits a law somewhat like California's trigger statute, which allows parents to turn a school into a charter school, replace the staff or even shut it down if 51 percent of the families involved agree).
Auster's novel The Music of Chance posits a situation so Kafkaesque that it can only be seen as a deliberate borrowing: two men, having forfeited everything in a card game to a pair of wealthy eccentrics, are forced to build a huge, functionless wall; after months of working for freedom, they find themselves in deeper debt, from which the only liberation is death.
Neither topic nor resource situations have to be posited for the exclusive need of domain restriction.
After discovering CACNA1D somatic mutations in APAs and by analogy with the situation for KCNJ5, Scholl et al 43 posited that germline mutations in CACNA1D could occur in PA.
Those who object to changing the traditional definition of "marriage" will point out that the examples I posited earlier are all distinguishable from the same-sex marriage situation, because we have not traditionally defined mixed-race marriage, or Catholic marriage, or Jewish marriage as anything other than "marriage".
Hillary Clinton's famous 3am video from 2008, which posited that Clinton was the best and most experienced candidate to handle any emergency situation that might befall the American people, suggested that Clinton occasionally sleeps, something that has recently been disproved by one of the 26 congressional committees investigating Benghazi.
To fully comprehend evolution, it is posited that individuals also need to understand the roles that the nature of science and situations of chance play in the process.
