substantification
English
Etymology
substance + -ification
Noun
substantification (countable and uncountable, plural substantifications)
- The act, process, or result of substantifying.
- 1985, Al-Fārābī, Richard Walzer, Al-Farabi on the Perfect State, page 103:
- As a result of its substantification in its specific essence, the existence of the sphere of the fixed stars follows necessarily, and as a result of its thinking of the First, a fourth existence follows necessarily.
- 2002, Richard Cross, The Metaphysics of the Incarnation:
- Involved in the substantification relation between a substance and its accidents is an individuation relation: an accident is individuated by its substance.
- 2009, Aki Järvinen, Games Without Frontiers: Methods for Game Studies and Design:
- The question is: has this kind of substantification caught on regarding games, which supposedly enforce a stronger adjectival emphasis in comparison to film narrative, due to game system and player co-behaviour?