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Definition of Hypostatize
1. Verb. Construe as a real existence, of a conceptual entity.
Generic synonyms: Reify
Derivative terms: Hypostatisation, Hypostasis, Hypostatization
Definition of Hypostatize
1. v. t. To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance.
Definition of Hypostatize
1. Verb. (transitive) To make into, or regarded as, a separate and distinct substance; to construct a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept into a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To attribute actual or personal existence to. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypostatize
1. [v -TIZED, -TIZING, -TIZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypostatize
Literary usage of Hypostatize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"This is evidently to hypostatize the abstract relation Motion in Hegelian fashion,
... To hypostatize abstract ideas is gratuitously to double them. ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"To put forward such a theory," says Dr. Porter, " is to hypostatize an ...
We wish Dr. Porter would explain how it is possible to hypostatize an agent of ..."
3. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"This tendency to hypostatize or give substance to that phase of objective reality,
which is known through the concept, appears, however, not to have been ..."
4. The Ethical Aspect of Lotze's Metaphysics by Vida Frank Moore (1901)
"... is to hypostatize it. And upon this question there will doubtless be differences
of opinion. Certain it is that in the second period as well as in the ..."
5. The Necessary and the Contingent in the Aristotelian System by William Arthur Heidel (1896)
"Socrates, however, did not hypostatize the concepts, but this, as we have said,
... But his followers did hypostatize both the Good and the Ideas, ..."
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