Hypostatize vs Reify - What's the difference?
hypostatize | reify |
To make into, or regard as, a separate and distinct substance; to construe a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept as a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character.
* Popular Science Monthly
:Progressives are wrong to hypostatize their belief in mankind's eternal advance, and to disavow anything that does not fit this preordained vision.'' - ''Cardozo Law Review , February 2005
To attribute actual or personal existence to.
to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing
In transitive terms the difference between hypostatize and reify
is that hypostatize is to attribute actual or personal existence to while reify is to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.hypostatize
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Verb
(hypostatiz)- Looked upon both species and genera as hypostatized universals.