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Conceive vs Posit - What's the difference?

conceive | posit |

As verbs the difference between conceive and posit

is that conceive is to develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate while posit is assume the existence of; to postulate.

As a noun posit is

something that is posited; a postulate.

conceive

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Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Verb

(conceiv)
  • To develop an idea; to form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to originate.
  • * 1606 , , Shakespeare, II-4
    • We shall, / As I conceive the journey, be at the Mount / Before you, Lepidus.
  • * Gibbon
    • It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised near twenty years of my life.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=3 , passage=Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.}}
  • To understand (someone).
  • * Nathaniel Hawthorne
    • I conceive you.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • You will hardly conceive him to have been bred in the same climate.
  • (senseid)(intransitive, or, transitive) To become pregnant.
  • * Bible, Luke i. 36
    • She hath also conceived a son in her old age.

    Related terms

    * conceivable * conceiver * concept * conception

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    posit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is posited; a postulate.
  • (aviation)

    • Usage notes

    * (for meaning
  • 2) Started by USAF Fighter pilots when needing to know the position of a wingman. I.e. Lead pilot would say "2-posit" and #2 would reply: "5 o'clock high". Also in use in commercial airlines. Some pilots respond "cleared into posit and hold" when cleared on to the runway.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • Assume the existence of; to postulate.
  • * 1908 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by .
    • some who posit both this cause and besides this the source of movement, which we have got from some as single and from other as twofold.
  • Propose for consideration or study; to suggest.
  • Put (something somewhere) firmly.

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