hypostatize

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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 Jones, Jesse H.

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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow