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verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of posit
nounpositing (plural positings)
plural positings
- human sciencesThe process by which one posits.
Formulated in this fashion, the phenomenological datum evokes the distinction made earlier between those intendings and positings in which the ego is involved and those in which the ego is not engaged.
2012, F. Kersten, Phenomenological Method: Theory and Practice (page 53)
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