This conviction explains the main characteristic of his philosophical style, to which all his contributions can be traced back: a strong propensity towards hypostatisation.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Wyclif] Reference

Marx explores this sort of hypostatisation in sections of this chapter, allowing the text to give voice to perspectives, as he did in chapter 1, that present an "inverted" image of social relations as arising from the intrinsic properties of material things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughtheory.org] Reference

We would therefore expect that a perspective that presents capital as a god-process, one that overleaps human practices and grounds itself, achieving autonomous and free self-development independent of human action, will be repositioned as a hypostatisation - an over-extrapolation from socially valid characteristics that fails to grasp the limitations and bounds within which those characteristics can be realised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughtheory.org] Reference

The hypostatisation of “society”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers: Pelosi hurt herself. Total split on gov’t health insurance:] Reference