hypostatize

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From Ancient Greek ὑποστατίζω (hupostatízō, “I hypostatize”).

Spinoza and Leibniz had, following Aristotle, hypostatized in God the unity of knowledge. — Creative Evolution, Bergson, Henri
We cannot, at the same time, avoid regarding, by a transcendental subreptio, this formal principle as constitutive, and hypostatizing this unity. — The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
But just as consciousness (as will be shown later on) concentrates on a given point of the organism the increasing number of muscular contractions which take place on the surface of the body, thus converting them into one single feeling of effort, of growing intensity, so it will hypostatize under the form of a growing desire the gradual alterations which take place in the confused heap of co-existing psychic states. — Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Henri Bergson

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