ponsing*
- the continuous state of proceeding without belief. the doubt is not removed; it is carried.
- the act of moving forward as if a thing were so, without holding that it is. [cf. pragmatism; fictionalism; suspension of disbelief.] the bridge is crossed before it is trusted.
from ponse + -ing (continuous aspect). latin pons, pontis — “bridge.” the suffix marks the crossing itself: not the bank left, not the bank reached, but the being-over-water with no certainty of either shore.
the founding text is preserved in the urban dictionary: “to not belive [sic] you can do it but you still do it.” ponsing is the middle tense of that sentence — the doing, before the done.
