Reification
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Reification can refer to various things:
- (Lat. res thing + facere to make) n. the turning of something into a thing or object; the error which consists in treating as a "thing" something which is not one. Hypostatization, treating an abstract entity as if it were concrete, is a case in point. The other meanings stem from this.
- Reification (computer science), the act of making a data model for a previously abstract concept.
- Reification (knowledge representation), used to represent facts that must then be manipulated in some way.
- Reification (linguistics), in natural language processing, where a natural language statement is transformed so actions and events in it become quantifiable variables.
- Reification (Marxism), the consideration of a human being as a physical object, deprived of subjectivity.
See also
- Hypostatic abstraction
- Hypostatic object
- Pathetic fallacy
- Prescisive abstraction
- Frege, Gottlob
- Lukács, Georg
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