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v. To assume something abstract as concrete.

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Usage examples (6)
  • Interpretations that hypostatise this fetish-character, misrecognising it for something more intrinsic than it is, can rightly be criticised.
  • Coleridge would have said, I only hypostatise a word, and it alters nothing if, with Fichte, I suppose the universe to be nothing but a manifestation of my personality.
  • When I try to form such a conception I discover that, as Coleridge would have said, I only hypostatise a word, and it alters nothing if, with Fichte, I suppose the...
  • Perspectives expressive of the potential of the real practical process of commodity circulation become problematic only to the extent that they hypostatise themselves,...
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