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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hypostatize.

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  • Now what is the cause, in these transcendental arguments, of the dialectical, but natural, illusion, which connects the conceptions of necessity and supreme reality, and hypostatizes that which cannot be anything but an idea?

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

  • Now exists, hypostatized out of a past (which stops existing when it stops being now) and which in turn hypostatizes the future (which does not exist.)

    Slashdot 2009

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