hypostatize

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If we apply it also to qualities of things, we hypostatize the abstract quality.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

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 Howard, Delton Thomas

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 Park, Robert Ezra