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Definition of Hypostatisation

1. Noun. Regarding something abstract as a material thing.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypostatisation

Literary usage of Hypostatisation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"This representation does not reach hypostatisation ; but it is a very vigorous personification (cp Rom. 8). A similar remark is to be made of the conception ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1907)
"This representation does not reach hypostatisation ; but it is a very vigorous personification (cp Rom. 8). A similar remark is to be made of the conception ..."

3. The Roots of Realty: Being Suggestions for a Philosophical Reconstruction by Ernest Belfort Bax (1908)
"In Plato we have the classical expression of the hypostatisation of the concept-form per se, activity generating it. I his way of regarding the primary ..."

4. Papers on Moral Education: Communicated to the First International Moral by Gustav Spiller (1909)
"In dealing with ideas there is danger of that hypostatisation to which we ... Psychologists, even while warning others of the dangers of hypostatisation, ..."

5. Old Criticism and New Pragmatism by J. M. O'Sullivan (1909)
"nate hypostatisation on the one side of the Ideal of Unity, the end or ideal we ... The result is thus due to a hypostatisation of different standpoints, ..."

6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"The same protest against hypostatisation of inferences forms a Leitmotif of Judd's essay on Perception, to which I have referred above. ..."

7. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1898)
"The assumption of a self within, above, and behind things is simply the reification (or hypostatisation) of the unity that originates by a combination. ..."

8. Authority in the Modern State by Harold Joseph Laski (1919)
"All he could do was to postulate his principles and he attained them by the hypostatisation of his public passions. The man who could honestly believe that ..."

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