hypostatize

• If we apply it also to qualities of things, we hypostatize the abstract quality. —  A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
• We proceed afterwards to hypostatize this idea of the sum-total of all reality, by changing the distributive unity of the empirical exercise of the understanding into the collective unity of an empirical whole -- a dialectical illusion, and by cogitating this whole or sum of experience as an individual thing, containing in itself all empirical reality. —  The Critique of Pure Reason
• But the temptation must have been great for the philosopher to hypostatize this hope, or rather this impetus, of the new science, and to convert a general rule of method into a fundamental law of things. —  Evolution créatrice. English
• When we hypostatize our hopes and wishes and treat them as matters of fact, even though they cannot be proved to be either true or false, they assume a form which Sorel describes as myth. —  Introduction to the Science of Sociology
• The Reformation ran the same course as in England earlier; one is almost tempted to hypostatize it and say that it took the bit between its teeth and ran away with its riders. —  The Age of the Reformation

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms