reify
IPA: riɪfaɪ
verb
- (transitive) to regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing.
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Examples of "reify" in Sentences
- That's an OK hypotheis to describe, but not to reify.
- The issue of parsimony is not meaningless, nor is reifying.
- I see no problems that are brought out to reify this point.
- Indeed, I reify merely by using such a phrase as Fredonians.
- It is important not to reify Buddhism into a monolithic entity.
- Maybe reify is not the right word, maybe the issue is nominalism.
- It's the same technique more sophisticated used to reify g for 100 years.
- It is a fallacy to continually reify a statement as proof of a generalization.
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