Recourse has also been made to vague principles which hypostatize the problem and call it a solution, e.g. From Wordnik.com. [ASSOCIATION OF IDEAS] Reference
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 accordance the demand for the unconditioned. From Wordnik.com. [Kant's Critique of Metaphysics] Reference
If we apply it also to qualities of things, we hypostatize the abstract quality. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
They hypostatize and deify an abstraction as though it were itself existent and divine. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
The Reformation ran the same course as in England earlier; one is almost tempted to hypostatize it and say that it took the bit between its teeth and ran away with its riders. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
But the temptation must have been great for the philosopher to hypostatize this hope, or rather this impetus, of the new science, and to convert a general rule of method into a fundamental law of things. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference
Together we hypostatize the divine presence, not to be maligned by Jackanapes Marprelate orthographers!!!. From Wordnik.com. [Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum] Reference
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