The separation of the two leads to the Positing of a third term, an unknown x, which is supposed to unite them.
"John Dewey's logical theory"
Delton Thomas Howard
If, on the other hand, the number of parts is infinite, then, the same kind of argument being applied, the magnitude of the whole is by infinite successive Positing of intervening parts shown to be infinite; therefore this one thing, being infinitely large, is everything.
"A Short History of Greek Philosophy"
John Marshall
Through emancipation from an easy-going subjectivity and through the Positing of life upon external things and, indeed, upon the whole of the great universe, Life, it was believed, would gain more breadth and truth; and in a noteworthy manner man undertook a struggle against the pettiness of his own nature and for the drawing out of all that was merely human and trivial.
"An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy"
W. Tudor Jones