reify

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To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing
Make (something abstract) more concrete or real
{f} demonstrate, make something simple and concrete
consider an abstract concept to be real
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The consideration of an abstract thing as if it were concrete, or of an inanimate object as if it were living
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representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality; "according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual"
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regarding something abstract as a material thing
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Improperly treating something as if it were an object In the political thought of Lukacs and other Marxists, reification often involves trying to turn human beings into marketable commodities The philosophical reification of abstract concepts is commonly called hypostasization Recommended Reading: Joseph Gabel, False Consciousness: An Essay on Reification (Harpercollins, 1985) {at Amazon com} and Bryan D Palmer, Descent into Discourse: The Reification of Language and the Writing of Social History (Temple, 1990) {at Amazon com} Also see Galin Tihanov and noesis
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The potential error caused by assuming that just because you can say something or give it a name, the utterance or name is meaningful For example, I can say "the absolute is green", but this does not necessarily mean anything To assume that it means something will be called "reification"
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to regard or treat an abstraction as if it had concrete or material existence
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Translating a complex set of phenomena into a single entity such as a number IQ test scores are an example
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To reify something is to create a CYC® FORT corresponding to that thing, or in other words, it is to add a thing that denotes it to Cyc's knowledge base Cyclists commonly use the term "reify" in two slightly different ways: Reifying a concept refers to the manual creation of a CYC® constant to denote that concept Reifying a NAT refers to the automatic preservation in the CYC® ontology of FORTs corresponding to non-atomic terms that use elements of #$ReifiableFunction For more on this topic, click here
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The term reification refers to the act of reifying something
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to treat an abstract or metaphorical concept as if it were an underlying stable unit of reality, for example to treat love-sickness as a disease or to treat the abstract concept of "color" as something existing apart from any colored object
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