Usage examples (8)

• Recourse has also been made to vague principles which hypostatize the problem and call it a solution, e.g.,
• As in the other disciplines of metaphysics, Kant suggests that we are motivated (perhaps even constrained) to represent the idea as a real object, to hypostatize it, in...
• If we apply it also to qualities of things, we hypostatize the abstract quality.
• They hypostatize and deify an abstraction as though it were itself existent and divine.