posit

verb (posits, positing, posited)

• 1 [with object] put forward as fact or as a basis for argument:the Confucian view posits a perfectible human nature
• (posit something on) base something on the truth of (a particular assumption):these plots are posited on a false premise about women’s nature as inferior

• 2 [with object and adverbial] put in position; place:the Professor posits Cohen in his second category of poets

noun

• a statement which is made on the assumption that it will prove to be true.