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Word of the Day: Hypostatize

Hypostatize (hahy-pos-tuh-tahyz, hi-)

Verb

1. the treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality

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[alpha2omegafitness-blog]

WORD OF THE DAY (part 2) Hypostatize-verb 1. to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality. Long ago the philosophers warned us against hypostatizing verbal categories, such as the category of "government" or "the State." When you hypostatize you endow a concept with a life that it does not actually possess. #hypostatize #wordoftheday

[guruwithin]

Used in a sentence: “Like any orthodox moralist Golding insists that Man is a fallen creature, but he refuses to hypostatize Evil and locate it in a dimension of its own.” - John Peter, "The Fables of William Golding," Kenyon Review, Autumn 1957                

The verb hypostatize is the later form, first recorded in 1829, of hypostasize, which was first used in 1809 by the English poet and literary critic, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Both forms of the verb derive from the Greek noun hypóstasis “sediment (in urine), substance, nature, existence, reality.” The Greek elements hypo- and stásis translate literally into Latin as sub- and -stantia “substance,” which caused endless confusion and controversy among Christian theologians of the 4th and 5th centuries.

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Word of the day: Hypostatize. To treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct sunstance or reality. #wordoftheday #wordporn #language #dictionary @dictionarycom #hypostatize

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I'm dipping my feet into those Trance waters

[heteroglossia]

He once remarked, to thunderous applause, that “philosophers, when speaking to people about the world, see the world, but they do not see that their listeners, located in that same world, five steps away from them, are bored to tears.” After a vivid description of the man-versus-elbow contest, Kint generalized the fact and, hypostatizing it, dubbed this act “metaphysics in action.” The philosopher’s thinking went like this: Any concept (Begriff, in the language of the great German metaphysicians) comes lexically and logically from greifen (to grasp, grip, bite). But any Begriff, when thought through to the end, turns into a Grenzbegriff, or boundary concept, that eludes comprehension and cannot be grasped by one’s teeth. “Furthermore,” Kint’s article continued, “in objectifying the unbitable outside, we arrive at the idea of the transcendent: Kant understood this too, but he did not understand that the transcendent is also immanent (manus – ‘hand,’ hence, also ‘elbow’); the immanent-transcendent is always in the ‘here,’ extremely close to the comprehending and almost part of the apperceiving apparatus, just as one’s elbow is almost within reach of one’s grasping jaws. But the elbow is ‘so near and yet so far,’ and the ‘thing-in-itself’ is in every self, yet ungraspable. Here we have an impassable almost,” Kint concluded, “an ‘almost’ personified by the man in the sideshow trying very hard to bite his own elbow. Alas, each new round inevitably ends in victory for the elbow: The man is defeated – the transcendent triumphs. Again and again – to bellows and whistles from the boorish crowd – we are treated to a crude but vividly modeled version of the age-old gnoseological drama. Go on, go all, hurry to the tragic sideshow and consider this most remarkable phenomenon; for a few coins you can have what cost the flowers of humanity their lives.”

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky, Autobiography of a Corpse

[english-tibetan-dictionary]

hypostatize

skyel - hypostatize, to deliver, to spend time [JV]

sgro 'dogs - 1) imputation, misinterpretation, exaggeration, uncertainty, ascription, hypostatized, misconception, preconceptions, attribution, conceptualization]; 2) doubts; 3) superimpositions [IW]

sgro 'dogs - 1) imputation, misinterpretation, exaggeration, superimposition, uncertainty, [ascription, hypostatized, misconception, preconceptions, attribution, conceptualization]. 2) doubts. 3) superimposition [lit. "attaching a feather" i.e. adding what was not there to begin with) [when in a simple context] misconception[s]. misunderstanding; misconceptions; doubts [RY]