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What does hypostatization mean?

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Searching for this genesis is sine qua non for overcoming that hypostatization of mathematical space which characterizes the ontological approach to the world as res extensa.
What Eagleton needs here is political theory, not historical salvation through the hypostatization of Marx's enlightened opinions.
Hyperbole was doubtless in play here, but so, too, was hypostatization, an awkward term for a common move in criticism, the inflating of a characteristic into a criterion.
The hypostatization of this idea, therefore, although it may be natural, is deeply problematic.
This famously chagrined Carnap, for whom such a seeming hypostatization of negation was the very epitome of metaphysical nonsense.
Note, of course, that Scotus's account of the common nature also entails something stronger than Adams is proposing: indeed, it entails precisely the sort of minimal hypostatization that Scotus advocates.

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