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What does hypostatize mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To make into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance; to construe a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept as a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character.
  2. (transitive) To attribute actual or personal existence to.
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If we apply it also to qualities of things, we hypostatize the abstract quality.
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.
Nor can content form or coalesce within the modern universal, for to come to the universal from within is never to encompass or be able to hypostatize it.

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