Definition of "hypostatize" []

• To ascribe material existence to. (verb-transitive)

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• "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:"
• "Ernst Bloch, who also rejects the Christian tendency to hypostatize the future into an already existing God."
• "Recourse has also been made to vague principles which hypostatize the problem and call it a solution, e.g.,"