reification
IPA: riʌfʌkˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living.
- The consideration of a human being as an impersonal object.
- (programming) A process that makes a computable/addressable object out of a non-computable/addressable one; or a concrete class out of a generic one.
- (linguistics) The transformation of a natural-language statement into a form in which its actions and events are quantifiable variables.
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Examples of "reification" in Sentences
- Statement reification and context.
- Reification in conceptual modeling.
- The statement is full of reification.
- That is reification and confirmation bias.
- Marx regarded this as a supreme reification.
- Social/technical distinction and reification.
- In this sense the term is synonym to reification.
- In this calculation, reification is a crucial step.
- Productive forces and the reification of technology.
- Both of these reifications are examples of the linguistic phenomenon metonymy.
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