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hypostatize

[hahy-pos-tuh-tahyz, hi-] / haɪˈpɒs təˌtaɪz, hɪ- /




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When we hypostatize our hopes and wishes and treat them as matters of fact, even though they cannot be proved to be either true or false, they assume a form which Sorel describes as myth.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

If we apply it also to qualities of things, we hypostatize the abstract quality.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

As Green tended to hypostatize the organic conception, so Dewey would make it a concrete reality, with the further specification that it must be something given to psychological observation.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

Yet if Mars is a hypostatized version of earthly nature, separate from humans, it is also something we’ve projected ourselves onto—and are already laying waste to.

From Slate Mar. 30, 2021

It cannot be said of the self of Kant that it is simply an hypostatized category.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

The first is a hypostatized legend, the second a metaphysical personification, the third a philosophical hypothesis.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Though reduced to a hypostatized negation, Brahma was not to be trusted; so long as entity was there, it might conceivably resume the weary round of evolution, with all its train of immeasurable miseries.

From Evolution and Ethics by Huxley, Thomas Henry

This conception of wisdom became still further hypostatized.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

We begin by hypostatizing the principle of systematic unity, and by giving an anthropomorphic determination to the conception of a Supreme Intelligence, and then proceed forcibly to impose aims upon nature.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Such an existence would be purely fictitious, and the hypostatizing of the content of the idea into an ideal, as an individual being, is a step perfectly unauthorized.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

We cannot, at the same time, avoid regarding, by a transcendental subreptio, this formal principle as constitutive, and hypostatizing this unity.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

This he accounts for by by hypostatizing a "raw material" in consciousness which is, must be, present.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.




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