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reify::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | reckon, see, view, consider, regard |
| Has types | hypostatise, hypostatize |
| Derivation | reification |
Examples of reify
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It is a fallacy to continually reify a statement as proof of a generalization.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The armed assault in Grenada threatened to reify his image as a gunslinger.
From the time.com
We used our youthful energy to not challenge the system but reify it.
From the forbes.com
Let's not reify our online meanderings.
From the theatlantic.com
It's so easy for students to reify a trait, like eye color, into a single discrete property that must be somewhere on a chromosome.
From the scienceblogs.com
And insofar as states'free trade agreements did reify what could be considered libertarian principles, I would support them in earnest.
From the infowars.com
Reify Health empowers medical experts with tools to easily create, implement, assess, and deploy mobile health interventions.
From the techcrunch.com
The challenge to liberals, then, isn't to reify their differences with a mythical red America and its strict daddies but, rather, to find common ground.
From the theatlantic.com
Why must people who are targeting fundamentally different goals try to reify scientific results, sociological studies, or whatever else in order to justify their beliefs?
From the economist.com
- Consider an abstract concept to be real
- (reification) hypostatization: regarding something abstract as a material thing
- (reification) 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"
- (Reification (fallacy)) 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 (knowledge representation)) 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. ...
- (Reification (linguistics)) 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 (Marxism)) 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 ...
- (Reification (object-oriented programming)) 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 (statistics)) 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.
