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How to pronounce reification in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms hypostatisation, hypostatization
Type of objectification
Derivation reify
Type Words
Synonyms depersonalisation, depersonalization
Type of objectification


according to Marx, treating labor as a commodity exemplified the reification of the individual.

Examples of reification

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A single triple expands into perhaps dozens of statements about its reification.
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The situationists were inspired by his theories on reification and alienation.
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Artistic values aside, Balzac displays the reification or materialization of the world.
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The pathetic fallacy is a special case of the fallacy of reification.
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We love its reification in sport, and its depiction in EastEnders.
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I meant to argue against Equilibrioception's treatment of reification earlier, but got distracted.
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Evil is a concept, a reification of an observed pattern.
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Perception is perception, not reification.
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In this sense the term is a synonym to reification.
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More examples
  • Hypostatization: regarding something abstract as a material thing
  • Depersonalization: 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"
  • (reify) consider an abstract concept to be real
  • Reification is a process through which a computable/addressable object--a resource--is created in a system, as a proxy for a non computable/addressable object. ...
  • Reification (also known as hypostatisation, concretism, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete, real event, or physical entity. ...
  • Reification in knowledge representation involves the representation of factual assertions, that are referred to by other assertions; which might then be manipulated in some way. e.g., to compare logical assertions from different witnesses in order to determine their credibility.
  • Reification in natural language processing refers to where a natural language statement is transformed so actions and events in it become quantifiable variables. For example "John chased the duck furiously" can be transformed into something like
  • Reification (Verdinglichung, literally: "making [some idea] into a thing" (from Latin "res" meaning "thing") or Versachlichung, literally "objectification" or regarding something as a separate business matter) is the consideration of an abstraction, relation or object as if they had human ( ...
  • In statistics, reification is the use of an idealized model of a statistical process. The model is then used to make inferences connecting model results, which imperfectly represent the actual process, with experimental observations.