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- noun The act, process, or result of
substantializing .
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Examples
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Heidegger warns that we must beware of the abstraction of being which the substantialization of the infinitive naturally brings along in its wake.
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Heidegger warns that we must beware of the abstraction of being which the substantialization of the infinitive naturally brings along in its wake.
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Conceptually Zen takes this holistic perspective to mean the de-substantialization of any two polar concepts, such as one and many, being and non-being, universal and particular, absolute and relative, transcendence and immanence, and birth and death.
Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy Nagatomo, Shigenori 2006
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He gave, then, to these ideas a positive existence as attributes; his commentators could easily give them a real existence as substances; especially as the terms which he used to designate them, essential beauty, essential goodness, lent themselves to this substantialization, (hypostasis.) -- G. ---- We have retained this view of the original philosophy of Plato, in which there is probably much truth.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765
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He gave, then, to these ideas a positive existence as attributes; his commentators could easily give them a real existence as substances; especially as the terms which he used to designate them, essential beauty, essential goodness, lent themselves to this substantialization, (hypostasis.) — G.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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