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hypostatic
Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary
[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From mediaeval Latin hypostaticus, from Ancient Greek ὑποστατικός, from ὑποστατός.
[edit] Pronunciation
• IPA: /haɪpəˈstætɪk/
[edit] Adjective
hypostatic (comparative more hypostatic, superlative most hypostatic)
Positive
hypostatic Comparative
more hypostatic Superlative
most hypostatic
- (theology) Pertaining to hypostasis, especially with reference to hypostatic union.
- (medicine) Pertaining to hypostasis.
- (genetics) Of a gene, affected by hypostasis.
hypostasis
Etymology
From ecclesiastical Latin hypostasis, from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις ‘sediment, foundation’ and later ‘substance, existence, essence’, from ὑπό + στάσις ‘standing’.
[edit] Pronunciation
• IPA: /haɪˈpɒstəsɪs/
[edit] Noun
Singular
hypostasis Plural
hypostases
hypostasis (plural hypostases)
- (philosophy) Inherent reality or substance.
- (theology) A person, specifically the person of Christ or of another part of the Trinity.
o 1985: What did the God who hammered the universe together have to do with virtue, redemption, the strange doctrine of hypostasis? — Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked
o 2000: As Gregory of Nyssa had explained, the three hypostases of Father, Son, and Spirit were not objective facts but simply “terms that we use” to express the way in which the “unnameable and unspeakable” divine nature (ousia) adapts itself to the limitations of our human minds. — Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God (Harper 2004, p. 69)
- (medicine, obsolete) a sedimentary deposit, especially in urine
- (genetics) the effect of one gene preventing another from expressing
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[show ▼]inherent reality or substance
• Romanian: esenţă f
[show ▼]sedimentary deposit
• Romanian: hipostază f
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• French: hypostase f
• Greek: ύποστασις f
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Hypostasis
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• Hypostatic abstraction
• Hypostasis (linguistics)
• Hypostasis (organization)
• Hypostasis (philosophy)
• Hypostasis (medicine)
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Hypostatic abstraction
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Hypostatic abstraction, also known as hypostasis or subjectal abstraction, is a formal operation that takes an element of information, such as might be expressed in a proposition of the form X is Y, and conceives its information to consist in the relation between a subject and another subject, such as expressed in a proposition of the form X has Y-ness. The existence of the latter subject, here Y-ness, consists solely in the truth of those propositions that have the corresponding concrete term, here Y, as the predicate. The object of discussion or thought thus introduced may also be called a hypostatic object.
The above definition is adapted from the one given by Charles Peirce (CP 4.235, “The Simplest Mathematics” (1902), in Collected Papers, CP 4.227–323).
The way that Charles Peirce describes it, the main thing about the formal operation of hypostatic abstraction, insofar as it can be observed to operate on formal linguistic expressions, is that it converts an adjective or some part of a predicate into an extra subject, upping the arity, also called the adicity, of the main predicate in the process.
For example, a typical case of hypostatic abstraction occurs in the transformation from “honey is sweet” to “honey possesses sweetness”, which transformation can be viewed in the following variety of ways:
The grammatical trace of this hypostatic transformation tells of a process that abstracts the adjective “sweet” from the main predicate “is sweet”, thus arriving at a new, increased-arity predicate “possesses”, and as a by-product of the reaction, as it were, precipitating out the substantive “sweetness” as a new second subject of the new predicate, “possesses”.
[edit] References
• Peirce, C.S., Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vols. 1–6, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7–8, Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931–1935, 1958.
[edit] See also
• Abstraction
• Abstraction in computing
• Abstraction in mathematics
• Analogy
• Category theory
• Continuous predicate
• Prescisive abstraction
• Reification
• E-prime
[edit] External links
• J. Jay Zeman, Peirce on Abstraction
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