id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8604 Hypostatic abstraction - Wikipedia .html text/html 940 192 43 Hypostatic abstraction in mathematical logic, also known as hypostasis or subjectal abstraction, is a formal operation that transforms a predicate into a relation; for example "Honey is sweet" is transformed into "Honey has sweetness". The relation is created between the original subject and a new term that represents the property expressed by the original predicate. The logical functioning of the second object Y-ness consists solely in the truth-values of those propositions that have the corresponding abstract property Y as the predicate. The object of thought introduced in this way may be called a hypostatic object and in some senses an abstract object and a formal object. The abstraction of hypostasis takes the concrete physical sense of "taste" found in "honey is sweet" and gives it formal metaphysical characteristics in "honey has sweetness". Philosophy of artificial intelligence / information / perception / self Abstract object theory Abstract object Abstract object ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8604.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8604.txt