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Definition of Hypostatise

1. Verb. Construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypostatise

Literary usage of Hypostatise

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

1. The Pathway to Reality : Stage the Second: Being the Gifford Lectures by Richard Burdon Haldane Haldane (1904)
"Just as you may hypostatise feeling by abstraction, so you may hypostatise thought by abstraction. Hegel points out that it is the doing this which has ..."

2. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1870)
"The Targum of Jerusalem seems to hypostatise the Word. In it he becomes an angel who is one with the Shekinah ; a sort of mediator, Jehovah's representative ..."

3. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1887)
"To take the regulative principle of systematic unity in nature for a constitutive principle, and to hypostatise and make a cause out of that which is ..."

4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"For, on the one hand, it tempts him to hypostatise the abstractions of logic; to invent content-processes of relation, of judgment, etc., and in this way to ..."

5. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1897)
"... to think that since Florence gives a definite date he must be relying on some source other than Bede, and that it is a little rash to hypostatise two ..."

6. The Contemporary Review (1867)
"... a fasciculus of negations ;"* he says that we annihilate by abstraction the object and the subject of consciousness, and then " hypostatise the zero. ..."

7. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1902)
"seven souls ; in either case it is a plurality ; and if we hypostatise faculties or powers such as intelligence or mind, the heart or tendency to emotions, ..."

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