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Definition of Hypostatization
1. Noun. Regarding something abstract as a material thing.
Generic synonyms: Objectification
Derivative terms: Hypostatise, Hypostatize, Reify
Definition of Hypostatization
1. Noun. reification ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypostatization
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypostatization
Literary usage of Hypostatization
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Activism by Henry Lane Eno (1920)
"a hypostatization of that symbol into an entity which has no real status aside
from that fact of hypostatization, or, as the class itself, a genuine entity ..."
2. The Ethical Aspect of Lotze's Metaphysics by Vida Frank Moore (1901)
"It seems to me that there is really no more tendency toward hypostatization in
the second period than in the first. In both the supreme value is conceived ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"But this is precisely an instance of And whereas, up to this time, discussion
had been in j the hypostatization of abstractions in exposing which the main ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"But this is precisely an instance of the hypostatization of abstractions in
exposing which the chief strength and value of Nominalism lie. ..."
5. The Significance of the Mathematical Element in the Philosophy of Plato by Irving Elgar Miller (1904)
"Nor can they be these concepts merely hypostatized, if we mean by hypostatization
the taking of them as they are, giving them an objective existence, ..."
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