 [rḗə-fī́, rā́-]
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Reification may refer to: Reification (computer science), making a data model for a previously abstract concept; Reification (fallacy), fallacy of treating...
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Reification (German: Verdinglichung, literally: "making [some idea] into a thing" (from Latin "res" meaning "thing") or Versachlichung,
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This process of making objects out of sentences and other entities is called reification. It is necessary for expressive power but again leads to complications in reasoning. It is discussed in (McCarthy 1979).
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Reification - Definition of Reification at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Reification. Look it up now! Use reification in a Sentence...
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treatment of an analytic or abstract relationship as though it were a concrete entity. (Young, p. l09) In social systems reification is encouraged by the use of language and underlies many processes of constructing social reality. (Krippendorff...
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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary Wikipedia has an article on: Singular; reification...
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Encyclopedia: Reification (fallacy)
Reification (also known as hypostatisation or concretism) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it represented a concrete, real ev...
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From Lukacs’ History and Class Consciousness, including his explanation of his concept of reification of social relations I: The Phenomenon of Reification...
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