substantification

noun

The act, process, or result of substantifying.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounsubstantification (countable and uncountable, plural substantifications)

plural substantifications

  1. countableuncountableThe act, process, or result of substantifying.

    Involved in the substantification relation between a substance and its accidents is an individuation relation: an accident is individuated by its substance.

    2002, Richard Cross, The Metaphysics of the Incarnation
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    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.

    1985 [c. 900 CE], Al-Fārābī, translated by Richard Walzer, Al-Farabi on the Perfect State, translation of آراءُ اَهْلِ الْمَدینَةِ الْفاضِلَة (in Arabic), page 103

    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?

    2009, Aki Järvinen, Games Without Frontiers: Methods for Game Studies and Design

Origin

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