Definition of hypostatize in English:
hypostatize
(British hypostatise)
verb hʌɪˈpɒstətʌɪzhaɪˈpɑstəˌtaɪz
Treat or represent (something abstract) as a concrete reality.
another term for hypostasize
Example sentencesExamples
- We must beware of hypostatizing the ‘market’ as a real entity, a maker of inexorable decisions.
- The method, as contradictions accumulate, is then rather fantastically hypostatized as the efflux of decadence itself.
- Barth's philosophical skepticism is rooted in the belief that ‘reality’ is our ideas about ‘reality’ hypostatized.
- She notes that the link hypostatizes and embodies the ‘bonds… to a cultural identity and collective past.’
- In any case, Albert avoids hypostatizing these modes by explaining them as relations between the things to which the terms refer.
- But there is also self-reflection in the emancipation-oriented sense, self-reflection as releasing the subject from dependence on hypostatized powers.
- If we do not wish to hypostatize the world or ontologize the subject by making either one a ground, then the relation in question must be independent of their terms.
- Similarly, when it comes to the peaceniks, they end up hypostatizing the idea of peace as a state of pure, positive activity.
- Unfortunately, our modern consciousness wants to hypostatize nature - to grasp clearly and unambiguously what this ‘thing’ is so that we can preserve it.
Definition of hypostatize in US English:
hypostatize
(British hypostatise)
verbhīˈpästəˌtīzhaɪˈpɑstəˌtaɪz
[with object]Treat or represent (something abstract) as a concrete reality.
another term for hypostasize
Example sentencesExamples
- Similarly, when it comes to the peaceniks, they end up hypostatizing the idea of peace as a state of pure, positive activity.
- The method, as contradictions accumulate, is then rather fantastically hypostatized as the efflux of decadence itself.
- But there is also self-reflection in the emancipation-oriented sense, self-reflection as releasing the subject from dependence on hypostatized powers.
- In any case, Albert avoids hypostatizing these modes by explaining them as relations between the things to which the terms refer.
- We must beware of hypostatizing the ‘market’ as a real entity, a maker of inexorable decisions.
- She notes that the link hypostatizes and embodies the ‘bonds… to a cultural identity and collective past.’
- If we do not wish to hypostatize the world or ontologize the subject by making either one a ground, then the relation in question must be independent of their terms.
- Unfortunately, our modern consciousness wants to hypostatize nature - to grasp clearly and unambiguously what this ‘thing’ is so that we can preserve it.
- Barth's philosophical skepticism is rooted in the belief that ‘reality’ is our ideas about ‘reality’ hypostatized.