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What does hypostatization mean?

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While objectivist scholars might advocate a hypostatization of values, subjectivism establishes an indissoluble link between values and the real action of an agent.
This famously chagrined Carnap, for whom such a seeming hypostatization of negation was the very epitome of metaphysical nonsense.
What Eagleton needs here is political theory, not historical salvation through the hypostatization of Marx's enlightened opinions.
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.
Hyperbole was doubtless in play here, but so, too, was hypostatization, an awkward term for a common move in criticism, the inflating of a characteristic into a criterion.
Searching for this genesis is sine qua non for overcoming that hypostatization of mathematical space which characterizes the ontological approach to the world as res extensa.

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