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. |