Sentence examples for hypostatization from inspiring English sources

This hypostatization of the idea of the world, the fact that it is taken to be a mind-independent object, acts as the underlying assumption motivating both parties to the two mathematical antinomies.

The hypostatization of this idea, therefore, although it may be natural, is deeply problematic.

One might argue that the conceptual shift from "impermanence" to "endurance" is a result of scholastic literalism and testifies to the Abhidharma tendency towards reification and hypostatization of dharmas (Gombrich 1996, 36 37, 96 97 & 106 107).

In addition to criticizing the "hypostatization" of the ideas of reason, Kant seeks to expose the "subreptions" involved in the use of the ideas.

The argument Kant offers is excruciating, but the essential point is that, just as the idea of the soul involved the subreption of the hypostatized consciousness, so too, the idea of the ens realissimum is generated by both a subrepted principle and a hypostatization.

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.

Another figure hovering in the background was Sigmund Freud for, although in other books he is critical of Freud's hypostatization of entities within the unconscious, in Art as Experience he gives subconscious processes a significant role in the creative process.

In relation to this, the theory of reason plays a role in Kant's efforts to argue against the "hypostatization" of each of the ideas.

In other words, mathematical entities do not at all exist independently or prior to the objects they are the number or figures of, but are only hypostatizations of aspects of such objects.

His further point is that when we abstract away from these different contexts and practices, in search of general notions, we are left with pure abstract hypostatizations incapable of providing us with any guide to action at all.