hypostatize
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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 Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
If we apply it also to qualities of things, we hypostatize the abstract quality.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
As Green tended to hypostatize the organic conception, so Dewey would make it a concrete reality, with the further specification that it must be something given to psychological observation.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
Yet if Mars is a hypostatized version of earthly nature, separate from humans, it is also something we’ve projected ourselves onto—and are already laying waste to.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2021
With the Absolute, an entity stripped of perceptible qualities, an "hypostatized negation," he could have no traffic.
From Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch by Leonard Huxley
These, the constantly desiderated traits of a perfect universe, are in fact the limits of what adequacy environmental satisfactions can attain, ideas hypostatized, normative of existence, but not constituting it.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
What it demands of the ghost, and of all hypostatized or anthropomorphized ultimate value-forms, is that they shall work, and its life as an institution depends upon making them work.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
They hypostatized unconsciously any force of nature that overawed them or filled them with gratefulness and joy by its beneficent or aesthetic character, and adored it.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Surendranath Dasgupta
We cannot, at the same time, avoid regarding, by a transcendental subreptio, this formal principle as constitutive, and hypostatizing this unity.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
We begin by hypostatizing the principle of systematic unity, and by giving an anthropomorphic determination to the conception of a Supreme Intelligence, and then proceed forcibly to impose aims upon nature.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
Such an existence would be purely fictitious, and the hypostatizing of the content of the idea into an ideal, as an individual being, is a step perfectly unauthorized.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
This he accounts for by by hypostatizing a "raw material" in consciousness which is, must be, present.
From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse H. Jones
