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n. - Regarding something abstract as a material thing.

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  • To judge from some on-line sources, W.F. Albright was talking about "hypostatization" as a regular process in religions/mythologies as far back as 1925!
  • The hypostatization of the heart implied here is a unique feature of ancient Egyptian thought.
  • The hypostatization of this idea, therefore, although it may be natural, is deeply problematic.
  • In addition to criticizing the “hypostatization” of the ideas of reason, Kant seeks to expose the “subreptions” involved in the use of the ideas.
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