Abstractionism is supposed to occur when a thinker falsely or mistakenly attributes actual existence in the world, to something that is but a name, or symbol representing a universal concept.
If the name or symbol assigned to a concept is indeed a relationship of pure chance, then hypostatization has actually occurred.
But part of me believes that Hegel and other idealists have it right. God's language, thinking, written code that is natural law laid out in words, in syllogism or by mathematical signs and proofs. In these instances, it could well be that language, reason and logic, if properly stated and clearly communicated, might well indeed be existent and one with the Forms, the essences, that they are simultaneously characterizing.
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