Hypostasis

a hypostasis, the Monophysites argued that a Christ is one Person, one Hypostasis, so He is one Nature, and they preferred "is one nature" to the equivalent "has one nature".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

Quine, W.V.O., 1953a, “Identity, Ostension and Hypostasis,” in his From a Logical Point of View

Material Constitution Wasserman, Ryan 2009

The main cosmological texts in the NHL, On the Origin of the World, The Hypostasis of the Archons, and The Apocryphon of John, are consistent in describing how the solar system arises as an inorganic simulation of the living pattern of the eternal Aeons.

Nazism, Manipulative Extraterrestrials, and Alternative Realities 2008

Quine (“Identity, Ostension and Hypostasis” in his 1963) has suggested that when a predicate is an I-predicate in a theory only because the language in which the theory is expressed does not allow one to distinguish items between which it holds, one can reinterpret the sentences of the theory so that the I-predicate in the newly interpreted theory does express identity.

Identity Noonan, Harold 2006

If this be not so, the first act cannot be the Intellectual-Principle: the One does not provide for the existence of an Intellectual-Principle which thereupon appears; that provision would be something [an Hypostasis] intervening between the One and the Intellectual-Principle, its offspring.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Hypostasis of the Soul in which the desire of earthly life is vested.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

If we are answered that the distinction is merely a process of our thought, then, at once, the theory of a plurality in the Divine Hypostasis is abandoned: further, the question is opened whether our thought can entertain

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

The mental state will be designated as Love, like the Hypostasis, though it is no more than a particular act directed towards a particular object; but it must not be confused with the Absolute Love, the Divine

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

Identical Nature; we must affirm that they are the same — not, it is true, as venturing any predication with regard to that [unknowable] Hypostasis but simply as indicating it to ourselves in the best terms we find.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

This Act of the Soul has produced an Hypostasis, a Real-Being; and the mother and this Hypostasis — her offspring, noble Love gaze together upon

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952