hypostatize

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

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

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

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

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

This conception of wisdom became still further hypostatized.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

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

The divine wisdom, creative and world-sustaining, became the highest of the divine attributes and was partially hypostatized as an independent cosmic power.

From Jewish Theology by Kaufmann Kohler

Though reduced to a hypostatized negation, Brahma was not to be trusted; so long as entity was there, it might conceivably resume the weary round of evolution, with all its train of immeasurable miseries.

From Evolution and Ethics by Thomas Henry Huxley

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

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

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

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